Sentinel Air Medical Alliance is an alliance of healthcare payors established in response to the rapid escalation of air medical transport rates. Our goal is to provide solutions to effectively control rates and ensure proper utilization for air transport services.
Sentinel’s services to healthcare providers
Our Services
There are countless reasons why our service is better than the rest, but here you can learn about why we’re different.
Prior authorization for air ambulance services
Prior authorization for air ambulance services
This is the only effective way to ensure appropriate utilization and to control costs for the transport service. It is your opportunity to “get in front” of service, rather than being surprised by a large claim. The use of this service provides access to our network of providers.
Medical review of transport claims
Medical review of transport claims
Our nationally renowned team of physicians provides a retrospective clinical review of transport claims and evaluates the appropriateness of transport and clinical quality issues.
Consulting Services
Consulting Services
Sentinel provides consulting services to help healthcare payors develop strategies to control air ambulance costs.
Claim Negotiation & Re-pricing
Claim Negotiation & Re-pricing
Sentinel provides claim negotiation & re-pricing.
About Us
Sentinel Air Medical Alliance is an alliance of healthcare payors established in response to the rapid escalation of air medical transport rates. Many payors find it difficult to effectively control rates for air transport, which are known to be egregiously high in most areas of the country. From the payor’s perspective, there are two key factors affecting these rates:
1. Our population is very mobile; therefore, your covered person may be in a region served by a provider with which you have no rate agreement.
2. Because of the emergent nature of most transports, you often do not have the opportunity to negotiate a rate prior to service.
Our company is led by a team of professionals who have over twenty years of experience in the payor and the air medical provider segments of the healthcare industry.
