Lifeguard Ambulance Service LLC
Lifeguard Ambulance Service LLC was paid $408K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2022, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is A0425, Ground mileage, per statute mile — 40% of everything it billed.
IRMO, SC 29063
Next to other Ambulance providers in South Carolina
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 | 1,428 | $143K | |
| 2019 | 977 | $113K | |
| 2020 | 3,274 | $40K | |
| 2021 | 388 | $26K | |
| 2022 | 1,126 | $86K |
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 40% | 3,532 | 3,096 | $163K |
| A0427 | Emergency ambulance ride, advanced life supportAmbulance service, advanced life support, emergency transport, level 1 (als 1 - emergency) | 33% | 876 | 805 | $134K |
| A0429 | Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency) | 19% | 607 | 543 | $76K |
| A0428 | Ambulance service, basic life support, non-emergency transport, (bls) | 8.6% | 1,605 | 1,354 | $35K |
| A0398 | Als routine disposable supplies | 0% | 245 | 175 | $0.00 |
| A0382 | Bls routine disposable supplies | 0% | 328 | 239 | $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.
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Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.