Lifeguard Ambulance Service LLC
Lifeguard Ambulance Service LLC was paid $2.17M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Sep 2023, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is A0428, Ambulance service, basic life support, non-emergency transport, (bls) — 31% of everything it billed.
MOBILE, AL 36606
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 | 11,485 | $395K | |
| 2019 | 12,008 | $418K | |
| 2020 | 10,797 | $503K | |
| 2021 | 5,857 | $285K | |
| 2022 | 5,403 | $333K | |
| 2023 | 3,704 | $233K |
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A0428 | Ambulance service, basic life support, non-emergency transport, (bls) | 31% | 13,737 | 9,874 | $676K |
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 31% | 22,110 | 15,673 | $675K |
| A0429 | Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency) | 20% | 5,350 | 4,559 | $439K |
| A0427 | Emergency ambulance ride, advanced life supportAmbulance service, advanced life support, emergency transport, level 1 (als 1 - emergency) | 8.5% | 2,043 | 1,848 | $185K |
| A0382 | Bls routine disposable supplies | 4.7% | 4,964 | 3,891 | $102K |
| A0426 | Ambulance service, advanced life support, non-emergency transport, level 1 (als 1) | 3.9% | 680 | 593 | $85K |
| A0422 | Ambulance (als or bls) oxygen and oxygen supplies, life sustaining situation | <1% | 370 | 302 | $5K |
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.
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Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.