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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2016
Accounting Policies [Abstract] |
Provisions for Contractual Discounts and Uncompensated Care Applied to Air Medical Trade Receivables Expressed as Percentage of Total Segment Accounts Receivable | Provisions for contractual discounts and uncompensated care that we applied to our Air Medical trade receivables (expressed as a percentage of total segment accounts receivable) at December 31 were as follows:
|  | 2016 |  |  | 2015 |
Allowance for contractual discounts |  |  | 56 | % |  |  | 56 | %
Allowance for uncompensated care |  |  | 23 | % |  |  | 23 | %
Schedule of Provisions for Contractual Discounts and Estimated Uncompensated Care Applied to Air Medical Revenues Expressed as Percentage of Total Independent Provider Model Billings | Provisions for contractual discounts and estimated uncompensated care that we applied to our Air Medical revenues (expressed as a percentage of total independent provider model billings) were as follows:
|  | Year Ended December 31, |
|  | 2016 |  |  | 2015 |  |  | 2014 |
Provision for contractual discounts |  |  | 67 | % |  |  | 65 | % |  |  | 72 | %
Provision for uncompensated care |  |  | 6 | % |  |  | 8 | % |  |  | 2 | %
Schedule of Net Revenue Attributable to Medicaid, Medicare, Private Insurance and Self Pay as Percentage of Net Air Medical Independent Provider Model Revenues | Amounts attributable to Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance, and self-pay as a percentage of net Air Medical independent provider model revenues were as follows:
|  | Year Ended December 31, |
|  | 2016 |  |  | 2015 |  |  | 2014 |
Insurance |  |  | 72 | % |  |  | 74 | % |  |  | 74 | %
Medicare |  |  | 18 | % |  |  | 17 | % |  |  | 18 | %
Medicaid |  |  | 9 | % |  |  | 8 | % |  |  | 8 | %
Self-Pay |  |  | 1 | % |  |  | 1 | % |  |  | 0 | %

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