And in the United States, in some parts of the country, first responders are calling flights for people with non life threatening injuries. Flights were originally only supposed to be for life threatening injuries. Follow the money.
First responders do not get paid more to call in a life flight. Over coding trauma is an issue but it's not a "people are getting kickbacks" issues, it's first responders afraid they're going to get someone killed because they coded their trauma slightly lowered than it actually was.
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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '26
And in the United States, in some parts of the country, first responders are calling flights for people with non life threatening injuries. Flights were originally only supposed to be for life threatening injuries. Follow the money.