Medical Escorts | Travel Medical Assistance Company | SentinelMED | SentinelMED specializes in orchestrating the safest, most efficient, and most economical medical care available to travelers and stranded patients. Our signature service is cost-effective medical transports on commercial airlines as an alternative to an air ambulance.

How to Get Home if You Become Sick Overseas

For many people, traveling overseas is the fulfillment of their life-long dreams. For others, it may be a routine requirement of their work, or an annually scheduled trip to see family or friends. A trip outside the United States requires significant planning and a good packing list, even for seasoned travelers. Although most people carefully…

How To Compare Costs for Medical Transportation

A recent national report on the costs of air ambulance services detailed several instances of people receiving just-in-time medical transportation, but at a huge financial cost – as much as $25,000 for a relatively short flight by air ambulance. According to one cost-comparison tool, medical transportation by air ambulance can cost between $2,000 for a…

Medical tourism is when people travel outside their home country for medial treatments. Many different factors could drive a person to seek treatment in another country: lower costs, preferred doctors or availability of treatments not regulated or allowed in one’s home country. Whatever the case, more and more people are choosing medical tourism. Whenever traveling…

Commercial Air Medical Transports for the Uninsured

According to a recent study conducted by the Center for Disease Control, approximately 29 million Americans are still uninsured, despite efforts to make insurance more accessible through the Affordable Care Act.[1] For many people who are insured, their coverage does not include expenses related to commercial air medical transports. The situation is much the same…