Lifeguard Ambulance Service LLC
Lifeguard Ambulance Service LLC was paid $1.84M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is A0425, Ground mileage, per statute mile — 41% of everything it billed.
BIRMINGHAM, AL 35211
Next to other Ambulance providers in Alabama
Peers share this provider's primary NPPES type and state. Size alone says nothing about billing quality: a big agency or a hospital system is expected to sit far above the median.
Auditor's notes
Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.
Paid by month
By year, as a table
| Year | Claims | Paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5,740 | $148K | |
| 2019 | 5,224 | $128K | |
| 2020 | 3,864 | $161K | |
| 2021 | 3,407 | $179K | |
| 2022 | 4,308 | $286K | |
| 2023 | 7,153 | $534K | |
| 2024incomplete | 5,642 | $403K |
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 41% | 15,041 | 11,278 | $760K |
| A0428 | Ambulance service, basic life support, non-emergency transport, (bls) | 36% | 11,956 | 8,844 | $667K |
| A0427 | Emergency ambulance ride, advanced life supportAmbulance service, advanced life support, emergency transport, level 1 (als 1 - emergency) | 12% | 1,767 | 1,505 | $226K |
| A0382 | Bls routine disposable supplies | 5.8% | 5,416 | 4,228 | $107K |
| A0429 | Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency) | 4.0% | 692 | 630 | $74K |
| A0422 | Ambulance (als or bls) oxygen and oxygen supplies, life sustaining situation | <1% | 402 | 336 | $4K |
| A0888 | Noncovered ambulance mileage, per mile (e.g., for miles traveled beyond closest appropriate facility) | 0% | 64 | 57 | $0.00 |
Claims and beneficiary counts add up across code × month rows, so one patient seen every month counts many times. Rows with fewer than 12 claims are suppressed by HHS, so small lines can be missing.
Who's on the registration
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.