Analytics · Air medical
An interactive siting and coverage tool for air medical programs. 104 bases located and attributed across seven states, 565 counties scored for demand, payer environment and access to definitive care, and a break-even model that says plainly where it stops being reliable.
What it is
Meridian puts the footprint, the demand and the economics in one place, so a siting question can be answered rather than argued. Every figure traces to the public file it came from, and the page is entirely self-contained: once it has loaded it makes no network requests at all, so a blocked CDN or a corporate proxy cannot break it in front of a board.
Network
104
Air medical bases located and attributed to operator across Minnesota, Missouri, Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Wisconsin. Federal provider registry, geocoded and classified
Analysis area
565
Counties scored for demand, insurance mix and distance to definitive care, with every input traceable to its source file. Census, CMS and state registry data
Model validation
1.6%
Gap between our break-even estimate and an independently published actuarial model, on separate data by a separate method. 187 vs 184 transports per year · Lieberthal et al., 2026
A model that says do not build here, and here is why, is worth more than one that guesses confidently.
What it answers
01
County-level transport demand built from public claims, census and registry data, with the traps named: Medicare fee-for-service now misses more than half of Medicare, and ambulance claims key to billing address rather than transport origin.
02
Every base located and attributed to its operator, with response coverage drawn and the overlaps between competing programs made explicit.
03
Break-even volume against the base's fixed operating cost, validated against an independent actuarial study rather than against the data that built it.
04
Operating break-even is zero profit. The volume that also covers the capital, the aircraft replacement and the owner's return is a different and larger number, and it is usually the one nobody has run.
Access
Meridian is held behind a password on its own subdomain. It needs no account, no app store and no access to your machine, only a browser.
