OIG Exclusion List (LEIE) Scraper

OIG Exclusion List (LEIE) Scraper

Search, filter and download the HHS OIG exclusion list, the List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE), and screen your own roster against it. Every excluded provider with name, category, specialty, NPI, UPIN, date of birth, address, the exclusion authority with its meaning and minimum period, and the exclusion date. Monthly new exclusions and reinstatements as their own feeds. Optional NPI registry profile and geocoded address. No login, no API key, no browser. Export to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML.

The OIG publishes the LEIE as a 15 MB CSV plus monthly supplement files, and an online search that only takes one name at a time and shows fewer fields than the file. This Actor reads the same public files, normalises them into clean rows, applies your filters, and can check a list of employees, vendors or NPIs against the whole database in one run.

Who uses it	What they use the LEIE for
Healthcare compliance and HR teams	Monthly screening of staff, contractors and vendors, as CMS and state Medicaid programs require
Credentialing and provider-enrollment teams	Checking an NPI or a physician before onboarding, with the NPPES profile beside the exclusion
Pharmacies, DME suppliers and billing companies	Watching the monthly new exclusions in their state and specialty
Healthcare law firms and investigators	Exclusion history by authority, date and location; reinstatements as they happen
Compliance-software and data vendors	A normalised monthly feed of exclusions and reinstatements with stable record keys

What it does

The LEIE holds about 83,800 currently excluded individuals and entities (80,400 people and 3,400 businesses). OIG refreshes the file around the 10th of each month with the actions of the previous month, and publishes each month's new exclusions (about 250) and reinstatements (40–80) as separate supplement files, kept online for roughly the last 19 months.

The Actor returns one row per record:

• 🧾 The exclusion record: last, first and middle name or business name, OIG's general category and specialty, NPI and UPIN, date of birth, street address, city, state and ZIP, the exclusion type code, and the exclusion date.
• ⚖️ The authority, decoded: each 1128b4-style code becomes 1128(b)(4), its class (mandatory or permissive exclusion), the plain-English reason ("License revocation, suspension, or surrender") and the statutory minimum period.
• 🗓️ Monthly feeds: choose the new-exclusions supplement, the reinstatements supplement (with the reinstatement date), or both, for the last N months.
• 🔍 Screening mode: paste a list of names ("LAST, FIRST" with an optional date of birth), business names or NPIs; the Actor returns one row per subject with matched, the match quality, and the matching records embedded.
• 🏥 NPI registry profile (optional): for records with an NPI, the CMS NPPES profile: active/deactivated status, enumeration date, credential, sex, primary taxonomy and licence, practice and mailing address with phone and fax, and the authorized official for organisations.
• 📍 Geocoded address (optional): latitude, longitude, the standardised address and the state, county, tract and block FIPS codes from the U.S. Census Bureau geocoder.

Filters run on the downloaded list, so combining name, state, city, ZIP, category, specialty, authority, class, date range, NPI and entity type costs nothing extra. Rows are sorted newest first by default.

Every row contains: recordKey, recordType, source, supplementMonth, entityType, fullName, lastName, firstName, middleName, businessName, generalCategory, specialty, upin, npi, dateOfBirth, address, city, state, zip, exclusionType, exclusionAuthority, exclusionClass, exclusionDescription, minimumPeriod, exclusionDate, daysSinceExclusion, reinstatementDate, waiverDate, waiverState, dataAsOf, sourceUrl, scrapedAt: plus npiRegistry, npiStatus, npiPrimaryTaxonomy, npiPracticePhone with the NPI profile, and geocode, latitude, longitude with geocoding. Screening rows contain subject, subjectType, parsedSubject, matchMode, matched, matchCount, matchQuality and matches.

What you can do with OIG exclusion data

Screen your workforce every month.

A hospital compliance officer schedules a monthly run with screenSubjects set to the employee roster ("DOE, JANE, 1980-05-14") and vendor list, and routes every row with matched: true to review. Dates of birth resolve common names; NPIs resolve providers exactly.

Watch new exclusions in your state.

A pharmacy chain runs source: "new-exclusions" with states: ["TX"] on the 15th of each month and gets the providers excluded in Texas last month, decoded authority included.

Verify a provider before enrollment.

A credentialing team passes the NPI with includeNpiRegistry: true and sees the exclusion beside the current NPPES profile: is the NPI still active, which licence and taxonomy, which practice address.

Track reinstatements.

A law firm pulls source: "reinstatements" for the last 12 months to find clients and counterparties whose exclusions ended, with the exact reinstatement date.

Build a map of excluded providers.

An investigative team filters exclusionClass: "mandatory" with includeGeocode: true and plots the coordinates by county FIPS.

Why choose this scraper

	What you get
The whole list, normalised	83,800 records with clean nulls (no 0000000000 NPIs or 00000000 dates), ISO dates and a stable recordKey for deduplication across months
The authority explained	Class, reason and minimum period for every exclusion code, straight from OIG's authorities table
Monthly feeds	New exclusions and reinstatements per month, each row tagged with its supplement month
Screening with match quality	npi, exact (name and date of birth), name, first-initial, business-exact, business-partial, last-name-only
Two enrichments	CMS NPPES profile and Census geocoding, charged only where they return data
Server-side nothing, client-side everything	Fifteen filters combine freely; a run costs one 15 MB download plus the rows you keep
No browser, no proxy	Plain HTTP against public files; runs in seconds

How it compares

Feature	ParseForge	Typical LEIE screening actors
Full list with 15 combinable filters	Yes	Usually name or NPI lookup only
Monthly new exclusions and reinstatements as feeds	Yes	Not listed
Exclusion authority decoded (class, reason, minimum period)	Yes	Code only
Roster screening with dates of birth and match quality	Yes	Some
NPPES profile per NPI	Yes	Some
Geocoded address with FIPS codes	Yes	Not listed
Price per record	$0.004	$0.002 – $0.10

Configure the run

Pick a source, add filters or a list of subjects to screen, and set the maximum number of records. The two enrichments are opt-in because each costs a request per record.

A first run with the defaults (the 100 most recent exclusions):

{
  "source": "full-list",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "sortBy": "newest"
}

Last month's new exclusions in two states:

{
  "source": "new-exclusions",
  "supplementMonths": 1,
  "states": ["TX", "OK"],
  "maxItems": 1000
}

Screen a roster:

{
  "screenSubjects": ["SMITH, JOHN, 1970-06-08", "GONZALEZ, MARIA", "1346474764", "Benimar Medical Center Inc"],
  "screenMatchMode": "standard",
  "maxItems": 500
}

Excluded physicians with an NPI, with the NPPES profile and coordinates:

{
  "generalCategories": ["PHYSICIAN", "MEDICAL PRACTICE"],
  "hasNpi": true,
  "excludedAfter": "2025-01-01",
  "includeNpiRegistry": true,
  "includeGeocode": true,
  "maxItems": 2000
}

Reinstatements over the last year:

{
  "source": "reinstatements",
  "supplementMonths": 12,
  "maxItems": 2000
}

Limits

• The LEIE is a monthly file: dataAsOf on each row is the date OIG last published it. Exclusions taken after that date are not in the list yet, on oig.hhs.gov or anywhere else.
• OIG truncates names and addresses (last name 20 characters, business name 30, address 30). Screening compensates for truncated business names; a person's full first name may appear shortened in the record.
• A date of birth is published for 95% of individuals; an NPI for about 8,800 records (most exclusions predate NPIs or concern people who never had one). hasNpi and hasDateOfBirth keep only records that carry them.
• Screening uses the full list only, so a subject reinstated last month correctly comes back unmatched. Up to 25 matching records are embedded per subject; matchCount reports the true number.
• OIG keeps about the last 19 monthly supplements online; older months are not available on the site.
• The Census geocoder does not resolve P.O. boxes, "C/O" addresses or foreign addresses (state: "XX"); those rows return geocode.matched: false and are not charged.
• The full list downloads and parses in a few seconds; 5,000 records write in under 10 seconds, the whole list in a couple of minutes. Use the filters or maxItems for routine runs.
• Apify gives every run a cost ceiling derived from your balance (maxTotalChargeUsd). The Actor checks it before each batch and stops cleanly at it, so you only receive rows that were paid for; the status message says "run cost limit reached".

Free users

Free-plan runs return up to 10 records (or 10 screened subjects) as a preview. Upgrade your Apify plan to pull the whole list.

Run it

1. Create a free Apify account with $5 in credit.
2. Open the OIG Exclusion List (LEIE) Scraper.
3. Pick a source, set filters or paste the subjects to screen, then click Start.
4. Export the results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML from the Dataset tab, or schedule the run monthly.

Run it programmatically through the Apify API (run-sync-get-dataset-items) or the ApifyClient for JavaScript and Python.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

Give an AI agent live access to the OIG exclusion list through the Model Context Protocol. Add the Actor to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client:

claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=parseforge/hhs-oig-leie-exclusions-scraper"

Then ask: "Is NPI 1346474764 on the OIG exclusion list, and under which authority?"

FAQ

Is the data public? Yes. OIG publishes the LEIE for anyone to download and requires health care providers to check it; the Actor reads only those public files.

How current is it? OIG updates the LEIE by the middle of each month with the previous month's actions. dataAsOf on every row tells you which release you are looking at.

Why does my search on exclusions.oig.hhs.gov show a person this Actor does not return? The online search and the downloadable file are refreshed together, so the two agree; check the spelling and the lastName prefix. If the person was reinstated, they leave the list: use source: "reinstatements" to see when.

Can it verify an SSN or EIN? No. OIG's "Verify" step needs the SSN/EIN entered on its own site and returns only a yes/no; the Actor matches on name, date of birth and NPI instead.