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Quickly search OIG Exclusions, SAM, and all State Medicaid Exclusion Lists at once for free, greatly simplifying your monthly Exclusions Screening requirements.

Enter an NPI number, license number, or provider name in the search field below to search the LEIE.

Alternatively, you can also search All Exclusions and the Provider Profiles.

Why Exclusions Screening Matters

Providers excluded by the Office of Inspector General (OIG), or terminated by any State Medicaid Agency, or debarred from receiving federal contracts, grants, or financial assistance, cannot participate in federally funded healthcare programs.

This includes Medicaid, TRICARE, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Additionally, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has the authority to revoke billing privileges, prohibiting the provider from participating in Medicare.

Providers are liable for overpayments made for any items or services provided by any excluded person for which the provider received reimbursement from federal healthcare programs. Additionally, the provider may face Civil Monetary Penalties (CMP) if they fail to ensure that proper exclusion screening has been conducted.

Need to run a One-time Exclusion Screening

Upload your provider list, and we’ll screen it against OIG LEIE, SAM, state Medicaid exclusion lists, CMS Medicare Opt-out and Revoked Providers list, FDA debarments, and NPI deactivation list. Get a comprehensive screening report that helps you verify each provider’s exclusion status.

The $25 / 100 service returns a report showing which records matched and includes links to the primary source record for each exclusion found.

Why use One-time Exclusions Screening

Choose One-time Exclusions Screening for new provider onboarding, credentialing, vendor screening, periodic compliance checks, or an internal audit.

One-time Exclusion Screening is ideal for small organizations with a limited number of providers that want to verify exclusions and gather documented evidence themselves.

The Exclusions Report makes verifying exclusions much easier by including links to the exclusion primary source record on the reporting agency’s website for quick verification and for collecting documented evidence.

Between the Exclusion Report and your documented evidence from the agency website for each exclusion found, you are audit-ready.

Ideal for:

  • New provider onboarding
  • A compliance review
  • An internal audit
  • Credentialing
  • Enrollment
  • Vendor screening
  • Contracting
  • Periodic compliance checks
  • A specific provider population

Need Continuous Exclusion Monitoring

If you need your providers automatically screened every month, see our Continuous Exclusion Monitoring service. Unlike the one-time option, it is for organizations that need their provider, employee, vendor, and contractor lists screened every month, with automatic change notifications and a dashboard showing Providers, Exclusions, Verifications, Reinstatements, Medicare Out-of, and NPI deactivations.

  • Continuously automate exclusion monitoring of your list of all healthcare providers, employees, vendors, and contractors.
  • Comprehensive and audit-ready Exclusions Report.
  • Automatic Exclusions Change Notifications.
  • Detailed Exclusions Dashboard with total Providers, Exclusions, Verifications, Reinstatements, Medicare Out-of, and NPI deactivations.
  • Primary Source Exclusion Verification Tools.
  • The ability to Save Notes & Documented Evidence of Exclusion Screening.

Recent OIG Enforced Civil Monetary Penalties

The dates and amounts below show the most recent OIG civil monetary penalties at a glance, with each entry linking the penalty date, entity, and amount for easy citation.

July 2, 2026
Northshore University Health System Agreed to Pay $105,000 for Allegedly Violating Patient Dumping Statute by Failing to Provide an Appropriate Medical Screening Examination.

July 1, 2026
Merit Health Central Hospital Agreed to Pay $350,000 for Allegedly Violating Patient Dumping Statute by Failing to Provide Adequate Medical Screening Examinations and Stabilizing Treatment.

June 18, 2026
Methodist Healthcare – Memphis Hospitals Agreed to Pay $107,000 for Allegedly Violating Patient Dumping Statute by Failing to Provide an Appropriate Medical Screening Examination.

June 16, 2026
Diagnostic Health Services, James Jackson, and Michael Herman Agreed to Pay $128,000 and Be Excluded for 10 Years for Allegedly Violating the Civil Monetary Penalties Law by Paying Remuneration to Providers.

June 11, 2026
CHI St. Vincent Medical Group Hot Springs Agreed to Pay $160,000 for Allegedly Violating the Civil Monetary Penalties Law by Submitting False Claims for Facet Joint Injections

June 3, 2026
Sunshine Care Partners and Rusty McMurray Were Excluded for 10 Years

April 30, 2026
Dr. Nathan Hanflink and Pain Management Institute Agreed to Be Excluded for 5 Years for Allegedly Violating the Civil Monetary Penalties Law by Submitting Claims for Chronic Care Management Services Not Rendered

April 9, 2026
Myers Southern Was Excluded for 7 Years for Failing to Supply Payment Information Required in an OIG Subpoena

February 13, 2026

West Tennessee Healthcare Agreed to Pay $340,000 for Allegedly Violating Patient Dumping Statute by Failing to Provide Appropriate Medical Screening Examinations and Appropriate Transfers.

February 12, 2026

Alfred Beshai, MD, and Mission Advanced Pain Management & Spine Center Agreed to Pay $451,000 for Allegedly Violating the Civil Monetary Penalties Law by Submitting Claims for Services that Exceeded the Allowed Number of Services.

January 28, 2026

Holmes Regional Medical Center Agreed to Pay $113,000 for Allegedly Violating the Patient Dumping Statute by Failing to Provide an Appropriate Medical Screening Examination.

January 27, 2026

Cordell Memorial Hospital Agreed to Pay $40,000 for Allegedly Violating the Patient Dumping Statute by Failing to Provide an Appropriate Medical Screening Examination.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is Exclusion Screening Essential?

Requirement
Federal database checks—42 CFR Part § 455.436 requires all Medicare Advantage Plans, all State Medicaid Programs, and all Medicaid Managed Care Organizations to confirm through routine Federal database checks the exclusion status of providers.

Compliance
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) mandates screening to prevent fraud, abuse, and patient neglect.

Financial Risk
Hiring an excluded individual can result in substantial Civil Monetary Penalties (CMPs) and repayment obligations.

How often should Exclusion Screening be done?

According to the OIG’s Special Advisory Bulletin issued in May 2013, the OIG recommends that healthcare organizations check their employees and contractors against the LEIE monthly.

42 CFR Part § 455.436(c)(2) Federal database checks states to “check the LEIE and SAM no less frequently than monthly.”

Monthly screening is mandatory in at least 14 States, while many others strongly recommend that providers screen employees and vendors against their State lists and the LEIE monthly.

Who Should be Screened for Exclusions?

Healthcare organizations must conduct exclusion screening for all individuals and entities that provide items or services payable by federal health care programs.

This requirement applies to anyone whose work supports services reimbursed by Medicare or Medicaid—whether those services are provided directly or indirectly.

Healthcare Providers & Facilities
Hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies, clinics, and physician practices.

Personnel
All employees (clinical and non-clinical), pharmacists, pharmacy staff, physicians, nurses, clinical staff, medical assistants, and administrative staff.

Contractors & Vendors
Third-party billing & coding services, transportation providers, ambulance services, and medical equipment suppliers.

Leadership & Support
Board members, managers, owners, and volunteers.

Basically, if an individual’s role contributes in any way to federally reimbursable services, that individual should be included in your OIG exclusion screening and Medicare exclusion monitoring process.

Furthermore, the OIG has emphasized that civil monetary penalties are most likely when excluded individuals provide essential services to patient care.

Author: Tom Kohl

I'm a serial entrepreneur developing and supporting compliance Web Applications for Healthcare and Pharma for both clinical and commercial use, including Clinical Trial Investigator Informed Consent and Adverse Event Adjudication apps, and Speakers Bureau Management for Medical Communications. HealthProviders DB grew from the common need for managing provider lists and validating credentials against a single comprehensive Healthcare Providers Database—that includes the complete NPI registry database, OIG Exclusions, SAM Debarments, CMS Revoked Medicare Providers, and all State Medicaid Providers Sanctions, Suspensions, Terminations, and Exclusion lists, and many other state and federal data sources. View all posts by Tom Kohl