More than $100 million in ACC claims has been paid out for ski and snow injuries since 2013.
Figures released by ACC show since 2013, the total number of active claims for skiing and snowboarding injuries amounts to 66,582, which added up to a total cost of $100,653,544.
So far this year, there have been more than 9100 active claims made in New Zealand for snowboarding or skiing injuries.
In the Queenstown Lakes district, there have been more than 4440 active claims made in 2017 and about $4.325 million has already been paid out.
The Queenstown Lakes area includes Treble Cone, Cardrona, Remarkables, Coronet Peak, Snow Farm, and Soho Basin, as well as any injury that happened off the formal ski areas.
An active claim is one for which a payment has been made in a particular year, regardless of the year the claim was made.
Patient transfers from the mountains, both by ambulance and rescue helicopter, were dealt with by St John.
St John Central Lakes territory manager David Baillie said the organisation increased staff in both Queenstown and Wanaka to cope with the increased demand for its services during the winter months.
Before season started, Mr Baillie visited all the skifields in the area to discuss what their specific needs were.
''I flew to all the skifields before they opened and discussed with each of them what their needs were and how they were able to respond to specific situations.''
Each skifield was different in how it could respond to injury - some have their own mountain-based medical services - but they were similar in the type of injuries they dealt with, he said.
Safety standards on the skifields had improved greatly during the past five to 10 years.
Both St John and the skifields took an active role in trying to reduce the number and severity of skiing and snowboarding injuries, Mr Baillie said.
ACC spokesman Chris Ritchie said some claims had ongoing costs, which meant some payments made in 2017 would include claims made earlier.
The information was sourced from the ACC45 form, which applicants filled out when the filed a claim.
Other information, such as the nationality of the claimants, was not recorded on the form, he said.
As ACC was a no-fault accident insurance scheme, it relied on the information provided by claimants at the time of the injury, Mr Ritchie said.
