[3] It is also the largest membership-supported air ambulance service in the US[2] operating helicopters from 140 bases in 15 states, mostly in the central and southern regions of the country.
From the beginning, the company has focused on medically underserved areas in the rural US including those not adequately served by other air ambulance providers.
However, patients are not always responsible for the full amount charged with reimbursement from private health insurance providers or government programs Medicare and Medicaid covering all or a portion of eligible costs.
Circuit Court of Appeals judges, in 2014 Air Evac charged an average of over $30,000 per trip.
According to a 2019 statement from Air Evac president Seth Myers, over 70% of transported patients have no insurance or are covered by Medicare or Medicaid.
[8] Air Evac provides emergency medical/critical care to patients in the field and interfacility setting.
Crews provide advanced skills such as: Rapid sequence intubation, Balloon Pump management and transport, ventilator management, radiological and EKG interpretation, fibrinolytics, surgical and needle cricothyrotomies, pleural decompression, and arterial/invasive monitoring.
The company has flown the Bell 206 LongRanger since its founding citing the model's reliability, efficiency, agility and safety record.