This section of the web
site provides key background information about MASA. Look here first for a high level
overview of why MASA, MASA
history, service overview, how MASA works and company
milestones.
MASA Medical Air Services Association, meets many vital healthcare needs:
- The average cost of an air ambulance is $6,000 and could cost as much as $25,000 paid in
advance!
- Few health insurance policies pay for any part of an air ambulance bill
- Commercial airlines have many restrictions regarding medical patients as passengers
- Federal regulations do not govern the quality of ambulance service
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In our founder’s own words, here is how MASA came to be…
“When we created Medical Air Services Association (MASA), our intention was to make
air ambulance travel affordable to the average person in the United States. Little did we
know that we would, almost 30 years later, have members from the farthest corners of the
Western Hemisphere and that we would have four companies with more than a dozen offices
located throughout the United States, Mexico and the Caribbean.”
• Emergency air
transportation
• Return transportation
• Recuperation/Repatriation
• Escort transportation
• Non-injury transportation
• Minor children return
• Mortal remains transport
• Vehicle return
• Organ retrieval and organ recipient transportation
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The MASA service moves into action with a single toll-free phone call by the member,
family members, physicians or medical personnel. The person placing the call need only
supply the member’s name and membership number, which can be found on the MASA
membership card.
Year |
Event |
1974 |
Rural Health
Organization is formed with two employees as an HMO offering an air ambulance benefit. |
1985 |
Name changed
to Medical Air Services Association (MASA) offering the world’s first pre-paid
emergency air ambulance service. |
1987 |
Headquarters
moved from Oklahoma City to Grapevine, Texas. |
1990 |
Caribbean
operations initiated in St. Thomas, USVI. |
1992 |
MASA of
Florida is formed and licensed under the Limited Health Services Organization Act of
Florida.
MASA International is licensed by the division of Banking and Insurance of the United
States Virgin Islands. |
1994 |
MASA de
Mexico, S.A. de C.V., was established to provide service in Mexico. |
1998 |
Completed
construction on world headquarters in Southlake, Texas, to provide an administrative
nucleus for all operations, including 12 international offices and more than 70 employees. |
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