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Lifestar Ambulance Service INC.
Lifestar Ambulance Service INC. was paid $2.72M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 9 billing codes. Its largest line is T2005, Non-emergency transportation; stretcher van — 35% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoLIFESTAR AMBULANCE SERVICE INC.
EMPORIA, VA 23847
EMPORIA, VA 23847
33aNPI1114947322assigned 07/20/2006
33bProvider typeLand Ambulance
28Total paid$2.72M
24GClaims69,632
24DCodes billed9
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Land Ambulance providers in Virginia
Rank by total paid#12 of 149
Median peer was paid$198K
This provider vs. median14×
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.
Box 24A · Dates of service
Paid by month
Paid that monthNov–Dec 2024: claims still arriving when the file was cut, so these months run low for every provider
By year, as a table
| Year | Claims | Paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 18,860 | $540K | |
| 2019 | 18,061 | $486K | |
| 2020 | 10,251 | $449K | |
| 2021 | 6,903 | $386K | |
| 2022 | 5,969 | $302K | |
| 2023 | 5,682 | $292K | |
| 2024incomplete | 3,906 | $262K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T2005 | Non-emergency transportation; stretcher van | 35% | 10,127 | 4,297 | $948K |
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 25% | 19,061 | 12,565 | $673K |
| A0429 | Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency) | 15% | 5,375 | 4,617 | $401K |
| A0427 | Emergency ambulance ride, advanced life supportAmbulance service, advanced life support, emergency transport, level 1 (als 1 - emergency) | 14% | 3,637 | 3,316 | $386K |
| A0130 | Non-emergency transportation: wheelchair van | 4.9% | 10,725 | 1,055 | $132K |
| A0428 | Ambulance service, basic life support, non-emergency transport, (bls) | 3.8% | 8,466 | 4,549 | $102K |
| T2049 | Non-emergency transportation; stretcher van, mileage; per mile | 1.4% | 10,114 | 4,287 | $38K |
| S0215 | Non-emergency transportation; mileage, per mile | <1% | 856 | 186 | $21K |
| A0426 | Ambulance service, advanced life support, non-emergency transport, level 1 (als 1) | <1% | 1,271 | 1,071 | $16K |
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.
From NPPES
Who's on the registration
Authorized officialBRYANT, EDWARD (CO-OWNER)