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An OIG exclusion has national scope and
is important to many institutional health
care providers because the Congress of the
United States established a Civil Monetary
Penalty for institutions that knowingly
hire excluded parties. Accordingly, the
OIG maintains the List of Excluded Individuals/Entities
(LEIE), a database which provides information
to the public, health care providers, patients
and others relating to parties excluded
from participation in the Medicare, Medicaid
and all Federal health care programs.
The LEIE is available in two formats:
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