Alacura’s Medical Transfer Center Solution
Empowers patient choice
Manages medical transport benefits from end-to-end.
Triages emergency calls.
Expedites realtime authorizations.
Dispatches the most appropriate transport: Fixed-wing, rotor, or ground.
Saves health plans and patients from unnecessary and inflated medical transport costs.
How it works:
Give your members the medical transport they need — without getting hit by a large balance bill!
Matching Patient Needs
1. We provide realtime clinical assessments based on over ten million transport requests for complicated clinical conditions — across the country and around the globe. more
Rapid Transport Response
2. Alacura’s Transport Management Platform rapidly and accurately connects transport requests to the most patient-appropriate mode and effective cost. more
Total Transport Management
3. From prior-authorization to medical management, we coordinate hospital processes, emergency fleets, network credentialing, and total benefits management. more
Why does it cost $36,000 to save 15 minutes?
When you factor in logistics, the typical air transport saves 15 minutes compared to ground! The vast majority of air ambulance flights involve hospital-to-hospital transfer of stable patients – only 7% are related to trauma.
Air ambulances, once mostly owned by hospital systems and municipalities, have become a big business:
- Three profit-driven companies own 75% of the nation’s ambulance aircraft
- The major providers have increased their prices by 285% in the last decade
- They have increased transport volumes by 30% in the same period
- A 65-mile ride in a ground ambulance costs the consumer around $2,000.
The average bill is for the same transport by air ambulance is $36,000!
“Our members appreciate knowing they won’t receive an exorbitant balance bill when they are home recuperating after a hospitalization.”
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