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Lifeguard Ambulance Service of Illinois INC.
Lifeguard Ambulance Service of Illinois INC. was paid $2.00M by Medicaid between Mar 2018 and Dec 2024, across 6 billing codes.
Its largest line is A0427 , emergency ambulance ride, advanced life support — 59% of everything it billed.
33 Billing provider infoLIFEGUARD AMBULANCE SERVICE OF ILLINOIS INC.
33a NPI1255832564 assigned 02/22/2018
28 Total paid$2.00M
24G Claims14,465
24D Codes billed6
24A First – last monthMar 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Ambulance providers in Illinois
Rank by total paid #36 of 137
Median peer was paid $601K
This provider vs. median 3.3×
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 .
Entity Proliferation Authorized official DORN, TIMOTHY controls 20+ related entities in our dataset.
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Box 24A · Dates of service
Paid by month
$0 $25K $50K $75K 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
By year, as a table
Year Claims Paid
2018 1,543 $89K 2019 2,019 $143K 2020 1,725 $180K 2021 2,068 $276K 2022 2,382 $374K 2023 2,465 $397K 2024incomplete 2,263 $541K
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
Code Service Share Claims Bene. records Paid
A0427 Emergency ambulance ride, advanced life supportAmbulance service, advanced life support, emergency transport, level 1 (als 1 - emergency)
59% 5,036
4,017
$1.18M
A0425 Ground mileage, per statute mile
21% 7,288
5,363
$412K
A0429 Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency)
20% 1,997
1,574
$401K
A0434 Specialty care transport (sct)
<1% 12
12
$3K
A0422 Ambulance (als or bls) oxygen and oxygen supplies, life sustaining situation
<1% 63
61
$676.80
A0999 Unlisted ambulance service
0% 69
48
$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.
From NPPES
Who's on the registration
Parent organization LIFEGUARD AMBULANCE SERVICE OF ILLINOIS INC.
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