While up at Tevis I asked the Calstar rep. how they
justify their $10,500 fee, which I just paid for my life-flight in June, because
quite frankly, even though you are paying for the nurses, pilot and chopper
upkeep, that's still monetarily equivalent to a few flights to Hawaii for a
large family. I was told that the actual cost of operation was only about $1500
per flight ,but because they have a 40% non-collection rate they have to charge
the insurance's that "do" pay $10,500, to make up for all the private people
who don't pay because they don't have health insurance.
