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This is most likkely one of those questions you will have to verify with the IRS....
Is the adoption Final?
Is the medical insurance issue something that will only apply before the adoption is final or is this an expense that will reoccur every year?
By what you have posted I am assuming that you have health insurance that will cover a placed child before adoption is finalized (LUCKY FOR YOU MOST COMPANIES WILL NOT) And that they have fees they charge that are different then birthchildren fees?
If this is the case there could be a real chance that these costs would qualify as adoption expenses under the rules of the IRS because they are 'added' costs simply because the child has been adopted.
If the Health plan charges this fee in general for added children or will continue to charge it after the adoption is Final then you would have to claim these costs as other "medical" expenses on your tax forms and would need to have enough (houshold0 expenses in the medical area to claim any of them as a deduction....
Either way the final word will come from the IRS.
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