Medical Evacuation: AI Visibility Market Discovery Index

Benchmark Summary

Questions This Section Answers

• Which medical evacuation brands led the category in October 2026, and by how much?
• Which brands recorded significant recommendation coverage declines?
• Did any brand record a significant coverage increase over the series?

Allianz Travel remained the category leader in October 2026 with 75.8% valid recommendation coverage, ahead of Travel Guard (AIG) at 71.7%, a gap of 4.1 percentage points. Two brands recorded significant declines: Global Rescue fell from 6.8% in July 2026 to 3.5% in October 2026, and Medjet fell from 6.4% in July 2026 to 2.9% in October 2026. Both declines were beyond normal variation and both extended a two-month decline streak. No brand recorded a significant increase in valid recommendation coverage across the series; the remaining tracked brands were stable on the primary metric within normal month-to-month variation.

Two brands moved meaningfully in the immediate prior month even though their series-level moves were not significant: Allianz Travel rose 10.4 percentage points, from 65.4% in September 2026 to 75.8% in October 2026, and Travel Guard (AIG) rose 8.1 percentage points, from 63.6% to 71.7% over the same period.

The current benchmark reflects 480 qualified observations in October 2026, down from 514 in July 2026.

Current Benchmark at a Glance

Qualified surface breadth measures how many of the six canonical AI surface families (ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Overviews, and AI Mode) produced at least one qualified observation. Both months recorded breadth of six, meaning all six families were represented.

For the strategic interpretation of this benchmark, read CiteWorks Studio's analysis of How AI Search Is Recommending Medical Evacuation

Current Brand Standings

Questions This Section Answers

• How does recommendation coverage differ from top-three and rank-one placement for each brand?
• Which medical evacuation brands received almost no AI recommendations at all?

How to Read the Standings

• Presence rate: the share of qualified observations in which the brand appears in the AI response.
• Valid recommendation coverage: the share of qualified observations in which the brand receives a valid recommendation.
• Top-three rate: the share of qualified observations in which the brand appears among the top three recommended options.
• Rank-one rate: the share of qualified observations in which the brand is the first or primary recommendation.
• Net sentiment: the balance of positive over negative mentions, scaled from 0 to 1.

For formulas and denominator rules, see the AI Visibility Market Discovery Metric Definitions.

Recommendation Coverage Movement

Questions This Section Answers

• What drove Medjet's and Global Rescue's recommendation coverage declines since the July 2026 baseline?
• How much did Allianz Travel and Travel Guard (AIG) move in the immediate prior month?

In the immediate prior month, both category leaders recorded significant increases: Allianz Travel rose 10.4 percentage points, from 65.4% in September 2026 to 75.8% in October 2026, and Travel Guard (AIG) rose 8.1 percentage points, from 63.6% to 71.7% over the same period. Both moves were beyond normal month-to-month variation. Global Rescue fell 2.3 percentage points versus the prior month, from 5.8% in September 2026 to 3.5% in October 2026, a move within normal variation; Medjet fell 1.3 percentage points over the same period, from 4.2% to 2.9%, also within normal variation.

Largest Decline: Medjet

Medjet's valid recommendation coverage stood at 2.9% in October 2026, down from 6.4% in July 2026. This 3.5 percentage point decline was beyond normal variation, and the brand declined in each of the two months since August 2026. Its raw mention presence rate fell to 6.2% in October 2026 from 10.3% in July 2026, a 4.1 percentage point decline, and its top-three rate fell to 2.1% from 4.3% over the same period. Medjet recorded 14 valid recommendations in October 2026, down from 33 in July 2026.

Largest Decline: Global Rescue

Global Rescue's valid recommendation coverage stood at 3.5% in October 2026, down from 6.8% in July 2026. This 3.3 percentage point decline was beyond normal variation, and the brand declined in each of the two months since August 2026. Its top-three rate fell to 2.7% in October 2026 from 4.1% in July 2026, and its rank-one rate fell to 1.2% from 1.9% over the same period. Global Rescue recorded 17 valid recommendations in October 2026, down from 35 in July 2026.

Category Leader: Allianz Travel

Allianz Travel led the category with 75.8% valid recommendation coverage in October 2026, up from 75.1% in July 2026. The leader's gap over second-place Travel Guard (AIG) narrowed to 4.1 percentage points in October 2026, from 5.8 percentage points in July 2026. Allianz Travel's top-three rate rose to 72.3% in October 2026 from 63.6% in July 2026, and its rank-one rate rose to 45.6% from 37.9% over the same period.

Among stable brands, several moved within normal variation. Ripcord rose 0.7 percentage points since July 2026, reaching 1.9% in October 2026 on 9 valid recommendations, and Redpoint Travel Protection rose 0.3 percentage points to 1.9% on 9 valid recommendations. Travel Guard (AIG) rose 2.4 percentage points since baseline to 71.7%, a move within normal variation at the series level. AirMed International, International SOS, Covac Global, and SkyMed recorded coverage at or near zero across the series.

Recommendation Placement Snapshot

Questions This Section Answers

• Why does a wide gap between top-three and first-position placement matter for leading brands?
• Which brands actually earn the first recommendation in AI answers?

Coverage alone does not show how prominently a brand is recommended. Allianz Travel led the category on both top-three and rank-one placement in October 2026, appearing in the top three in 72.3% of observations and first in 45.6%. Travel Guard (AIG) reached the top three in 55.2% of observations but was ranked first in only 6.0%, a wide gap between top-three and first-position placement.

Similar coverage levels can still hide very different first-position rates. Travel Guard (AIG) remained close to Allianz Travel on coverage in October 2026 at 71.7% versus 75.8%, yet Allianz Travel was the first recommendation in 45.6% of observations while Travel Guard (AIG) was first in only 6.0%.

Buyer-Intent Distribution

Questions This Section Answers

• What buyer-intent classes appear in the current medical evacuation benchmark, and which are missing?

In both July and October 2026, qualified observations fell into a single buyer-intent class: brand recommendation discovery.

The current public series measures brand recommendation discovery only and does not yet contain qualified observations in the pricing and value or multi-brand comparison classes.

Historical Measurement Record

Questions This Section Answers

• Does the four-month record show a trend in category leadership, or only month-to-month movement?
• How did qualified observation counts change across the measurement series?

Evidence and Source Layer

This benchmark is built from prompt-level observations that retain the query, AI/search surface, answer, brand outcome, recommendation placement, sentiment, and, where exposed, citations or attributable evidence sources. Source presence is evidence about the information environment. It is not automatically proof that the source caused the recommendation.

Scope Boundaries

This public benchmark does not measure:

• Market share or attributable sales of any tracked brand
• Every possible AI response to a given prompt
• Organic-search ranking behavior
• Social media mention volume
• Private or sponsored channels such as paid placements or brand-controlled content
• Causality from a metric movement alone

Top 10 Cited Domains

Questions This Section Answers

• Which domains are cited most often in AI answers about medical evacuation, and how widely are they cited?
• Do any tracked brands' own domains appear among the most-cited sources?

Across all AI platform responses in this measurement period, the benchmark recorded 6,291 citations drawn from 749 unique domains.

The top 10 domains together account for 2,791 of 6,291 citations, with the remaining citations distributed across 739 additional domains. Citations are led by comparison and review sites such as squaremouth.com, nerdwallet.com, and insuremytrip.com, alongside general consumer-finance and news outlets. Two tracked brands own domains that appear in the top 10: travelguard.com at rank four and allianztravelinsurance.com at rank five, both cited across most or all of the six AI surface families.

About This Benchmark

The LLM Authority Index AI Visibility Market Discovery Index tracks how AI and search surfaces discover, name, and recommend brands within a vertical. It measures presence, recommendation coverage, placement, and sentiment as distinct signals in a shared, audited research framework.

• AI Visibility Market Discovery Methodology
• AI Visibility Market Discovery Metric Definitions
• AI Visibility Market Discovery Research Standards
• Modeled AI Visibility Authority Value

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