For healthcare organizations
Automated Healthcare Exclusion Screening
Monitor employees, providers and vendors against federal healthcare exclusion data without rebuilding the same spreadsheet every month.
From $29/month for 25 monitored records. No card required to create an account.
The problem this replaces
A spreadsheet, a government website, and one afternoon a month
The manual version of this work is somebody opening the OIG exclusions site, typing in names one at a time, pasting results into a spreadsheet, and hoping the file survives the next reorganisation. It is slow, it is unreviewable, and the evidence it produces is a screenshot.
Every record, every month
One upload, then automatic rescreening against HHS-OIG LEIE and SAM.gov on your schedule. Adding somebody to the roster screens them immediately.
Matches you can actually review
Each potential match shows the fields that agreed and the fields that did not, side by side. There is no score to interpret and no model to trust — just the comparison.
A record you can hand to an auditor
Who screened what, when, against which version of which source, and who decided what about each match. Append-only, and reproducible months later.
4 official sources
Built around primary-source data
NPISignal holds a copy of each source and states when that copy was published. It does not aggregate other directories, and it does not write anything about a provider that a source did not publish.
| Source | Covers | Republished | NPISignal’s copy |
|---|---|---|---|
NPPES Provider Data Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Publisher | Provider identity, NPI records, taxonomy and practice locations | Monthly baseline, weekly incrementals | September 13, 2026 9,447,072 records |
List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE) HHS Office of Inspector General Publisher | Individuals and entities excluded from federal healthcare programs | Monthly | September 10, 2026 84,001 records |
SAM.gov Exclusions U.S. General Services Administration Publisher | Federal exclusion and debarment records across agencies | Continuous | Not configured on this deployment |
Health Care Provider Taxonomy Code Set National Uniform Claim Committee Publisher | The provider taxonomy code set specialties are reported in | Twice yearly | July 1, 2026 883 records |
NPISignal is an independent service and is not affiliated with CMS, HHS-OIG, the General Services Administration, or the U.S. government. An NPI does not by itself establish professional licensure or credentialing, and the absence of an exclusion record is not a determination of eligibility.
Upload once, then only look at what changed
How monitoring works
The same screening the free tools run, kept up to date automatically and recorded well enough to hand to an auditor.
- 01
Upload your roster
CSV or XLSX. NPISignal maps your columns, shows you exactly what will be imported and what will be skipped, and writes nothing until you confirm.
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Records resolve against NPPES
A row carrying an NPI is linked to its NPPES provider. A row without one is screened on the name it was uploaded with — NPISignal suggests providers but never links one on its own.
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Screening runs, and reruns
Every record is checked against HHS-OIG LEIE and SAM.gov. The run repeats on your schedule, and each run keeps the source versions it actually used.
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You review only what changed
A potential match is a lead with the matching fields spelled out. Dismiss one as a different person and it stays dismissed — unless the identity information on either side changes.
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The record is permanent
Every run, every decision and every reviewer is kept. A report generated months later renders the run as it was, not today's data.
Managing a healthcare team?
Screening one person at a time is free and always will be. Monitoring a roster starts at $29 a month.
Read this before you buy
What this does not do
A compliance tool that oversells what it proves is a liability, not an asset. These are the limits, stated on the page where somebody is deciding to pay for it.
It does not certify compliance.
NPISignal reports what was found in the sources it holds, as of a stated date. Whether your organization is compliant is a determination only your organization and its counsel can make.
It does not verify identity conclusively.
The public LEIE download carries no Social Security or employer identification number. Where two people share a name and a birth year, the public data cannot separate them — only the issuing agency can, through its own process.
It does not cover state Medicaid exclusion lists yet.
Only the two federal sources. If your contracts require state-level screening, you will still need to do that separately today.
It does not check licensure.
An NPI is not a licence, and NPPES does not say whether one is current. Licence monitoring is a different product and NPISignal does not pretend to be it.
It does not make employment decisions.
A potential match is a lead for a person to review. NPISignal never flags somebody as excluded on its own, and never presents a name match as a confirmed identification.
No setup fee, no annual commitment
Pricing
Priced on how many records are monitored, because that is what the work scales with.
Free
Always free$0/month
The public tools, plus a small roster to try monitoring with.
- NPI lookup and provider search across 9.3 million records
- Provider profiles with NPPES data and NPI-based federal screening
- OIG LEIE and SAM.gov exclusion search, one party at a time
- Up to 5 monitored records, screened on demand
Starter
$29/month
A small team, screened every month without the spreadsheet.
- Up to 25 monitored people or entities
- Scheduled monthly OIG LEIE and SAM.gov screening
- Email alerts when a potential match appears
- Full screening history, retained indefinitely
Practice
$49/month
A practice with turnover, and someone who has to sign off on it.
- Up to 100 monitored people or entities
- Weekly or monthly screening cadence
- Up to 10 users with roles
- Everything in Starter
Straight answers
Questions worth asking
- How often should a healthcare organization screen for exclusions?
- HHS-OIG advises checking the LEIE monthly, and republishes the file on that cadence. Many state Medicaid programs and payer contracts require monthly screening explicitly. NPISignal's default cadence is monthly for that reason; weekly is available where a contract asks for it.
- Does a clean screening mean somebody is eligible to bill federal programs?
- No, and NPISignal never says it does. A screening reports what was found in the data NPISignal holds, as of a stated date. It is not a determination of eligibility, licensure or compliance, and the responsibility for verification and for any employment decision stays with your organization.
- Can NPISignal confirm identity using a Social Security number?
- No. The downloadable LEIE does not include Social Security or employer identification numbers, and NPISignal does not collect them — there is no column for one anywhere in the product. Where an ambiguous identity needs resolving, the issuing agency's own verification process is the authoritative route, and NPISignal will not automate it.
- What happens when NPISignal cannot reach a source?
- It says so. An unreachable source is recorded and reported as 'screening unavailable' — a distinct state from 'no potential match identified'. A run in which a source failed is marked incomplete, the report names which records were not checked, and nothing is presented as clean that was not actually checked.
- What happens to a match we dismiss?
- It stays dismissed, and it does not come back next month — unless the identity information on either side changes. If a date of birth is added to your record, or OIG revises the exclusion record, the match is raised again, because that is new information a person should look at.
- What do we keep if we cancel?
- Your screening history, the decisions your team recorded and any reports you generated stay readable. They are the record of work already done, and taking them away at cancellation would make them worthless as evidence. Recurring screening stops.
- Which state Medicaid exclusion lists are covered?
- None yet. NPISignal covers the two federal sources — HHS-OIG LEIE and SAM.gov — and says so plainly rather than implying broader coverage. State Medicaid lists are the next source category, and the ingestion architecture is built for them.
Screen one person now, for free
The public exclusion search runs the same checks against the same data. No account, no limit.