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Costs range from $12,000 to $25,000 per flight. Every year, an estimated 550,000 patients in the United States are flown by medical helicopters and small airplanes for emergencies that include car wrecks, hiking accidents and heart attacks, according to the Association of Air Medical Services.
When they matched patients with similar characteristics and similar levels of injury, they found a small increased rate of survival in helicopter-transported patients. As for how expensive the service is, in Maryland it costs $5,000 for one such flight. Using simple math, the authors estimate the cost to save one life is $325,000. But since Maryland has a relatively low operating cost due to the ideal design of their trauma system, in most states the cost per flight is much higher. In some states, the cost per life is over $1 million.