Transport
Lifeguard Ambulance Service LLC
Lifeguard Ambulance Service LLC was paid $735K by Medicaid between Jul 2019 and Nov 2024, across 4 billing codes.
Its largest line is A0427 , emergency ambulance ride, advanced life support — 71% of everything it billed.
33 Billing provider infoLIFEGUARD AMBULANCE SERVICE LLC
33a NPI1407361512 assigned 12/12/2017
28 Total paid$735K
24G Claims9,565
24D Codes billed4
24A First – last monthJul 2019 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Ambulance providers in South Carolina
Rank by total paid #20 of 51
Median peer was paid $630K
This provider vs. median 1.2×
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 $10K $20K 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
By year, as a table
Year Claims Paid
2019 419 $36K 2020 2,106 $123K 2021 1,655 $133K 2022 1,807 $154K 2023 1,776 $153K 2024incomplete 1,802 $136K
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)
71% 3,802
3,187
$523K
A0425 Ground mileage, per statute mile
18% 4,843
3,969
$130K
A0429 Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency)
11% 730
627
$81K
A0398 Als routine disposable supplies
<1% 190
76
$18.06
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 LLC
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Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.