It is understood that the commercial medical aircraft services first began in the 1980s in the United States, and now in Europe and the United States market has gradually matured. The emergence and popularization of it breaks the space and geographical restrictions, greatly shortening the critical patient treatment time, greatly improving the ability to save lives.
Before this year, China's aerial medical rescue is still a blank, no city can have air medical ambulance service, for example, the vast majority of hospitals do not have a helipad.
According to Tian Zhenbiao, spokesman for the Beijing Red Cross 999 Emergency Center, at the end of 2013, the number of civil helicopters registered with the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) was only 290, which is about 1/70th of that of the U.S. None of them were dedicated to medical rescue. This gap was gradually broken in the first half of this year.
March 19 this year, HNA Group's Golden Deer Aviation Rescue Services Company was established as the first domestic international aviation medical specialties, with two medical specialties. March 31, the Beijing Red Cross 999 Emergency Center and the European direct company signed a helicopter emergency medical services cooperation agreement, within three years, plans to Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei region will be its special apron to 100. In addition, Shouhang Helicopter, Huabin Tianxing, etc., in the professional air ambulance, etc. have made plans.
Industry insiders pointed out that the next 3 to 5 years, China's annual aviation rescue market will reach 15 billion yuan of insurance share.
It is worth noting that the price of air ICU is not expensive. The insurance company responsible for paying the bill in the case in the article said the cost of transferring a patient is around 500,000 yuan. And the patient was able to enjoy this kind of emergency SOS rescue service because the company in which he worked had purchased high-end medical insurance for him.
The reporter learned through interviews that, at the earliest, high-end medical insurance was purchased by foreign companies for their expatriate employees or executives who came to work in China, and now some companies also buy it for their middle- and high-level employees. Now some companies also buy for middle and high level employees. At present, high-end medical insurance is mostly purchased by corporate groups.
As for the cost of the insurance, most insurers say they have different premium requirements based on the average age of the company's personnel, the male-to-female ratio, health conditions, and the experience of paying out medical insurance in previous years, among other things.
According to the head of Ping An Health Insurance, individuals buying high-end medical insurance have products with premiums of more than 2,000 yuan a year and more than 5,000 yuan and more than 10,000 yuan a year, but only the 10,000 yuan product includes SOS rescue services.
However, it should be noted that several insurance companies said that it is not the purchase of high-end medical insurance can enjoy the medical transit, and it does not necessarily enable the helicopter rescue.
New Beijing News reporter Zhao Jiani Liang Weiwei
Who pays for air rescue?
In foreign countries, the cost of air ambulance is mainly paid by four types of entities: the government, insurance companies, private donations, and the patients themselves. One of the most common, and at this stage the most worthy of our country, is that people absorb the cost of rescue by buying commercial insurance.
Who can enjoy the SOS emergency rescue service?
At present, in addition to taking out high-end medical insurance, you can also enjoy SOS emergency rescue service by buying overseas travel insurance. In addition, some life insurance companies also give SOS emergency rescue service as a value-added service to their VIP customers.
How big is the air rescue market?
According to Lu Haikuan, chief executive officer of Golden Deer Air Rescue, China's annual air rescue insurance market will reach 15 billion yuan in the next three to five years. The current price of air rescue flights is $10,000 to $13,000 per hour, and the main customer groups are still corporate customers.
Is there an industry standard for air rescue?
Many industry experts pointed out that although China's civil aviation, air traffic control departments are strongly supportive of air rescue, priority release of civil aviation or navigation aircraft with rescue tasks, but a series of standardized industry standards need to be developed and improved.