Lifeguard Ambulance Service LLC
Lifeguard Ambulance Service LLC was paid $651K by Medicaid between Jan 2019 and Nov 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is A0425, Ground mileage, per statute mile — 57% of everything it billed.
NORTH CHARLESTON, SC 29405
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 140 | $11K | |
| 2020 | 2,687 | $29K | |
| 2021 | 1,131 | $44K | |
| 2022 | 2,092 | $183K | |
| 2023 | 2,897 | $225K | |
| 2024incomplete | 2,847 | $159K |
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 57% | 5,676 | 5,021 | $370K |
| A0428 | Ambulance service, basic life support, non-emergency transport, (bls) | 20% | 3,653 | 3,239 | $131K |
| A0426 | Ambulance service, advanced life support, non-emergency transport, level 1 (als 1) | 16% | 992 | 936 | $106K |
| A0427 | Emergency ambulance ride, advanced life supportAmbulance service, advanced life support, emergency transport, level 1 (als 1 - emergency) | 4.1% | 168 | 140 | $26K |
| A0999 | Unlisted ambulance service | 2.8% | 265 | 248 | $18K |
| A0398 | Als routine disposable supplies | 0% | 731 | 453 | $0.00 |
| A0392 | Als specialized service disposable supplies; defibrillation (to be used only in jurisdictions where defibrillation cannot be performed in bls ambulances) | 0% | 25 | 24 | $0.00 |
| A0382 | Bls routine disposable supplies | 0% | 284 | 236 | $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.
Who's on the registration
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.