California Medicaid exclusion list
ExclusionHQ can't check the Medi-Cal Suspended and Ineligible Provider List automatically yet: the open-data file refused our download; being worked on. Check it yourself on the state's page and keep a record.
The free check below still covers the federal lists every California provider needs: the OIG LEIE and SAM.gov.
Add dates of birth: the LEIE lists one for almost everyone, and it is what tells two people with the same name apart.
Checking the California list yourself
Download the current list from the state's page in your browser, search it for each person's surname, and keep the file with the date you checked it.
Check before each person starts and then on the schedule your Medicaid provider agreement sets. For the federal lists, OIG says checking every month best limits the risk, because it updates its list monthly (see monthly exclusion screening).
The Medi-Cal Suspended and Ineligible Provider List on the state's site
California on the federal lists
Of the people on the OIG exclusion list (the LEIE copy of Nov 6, 2026), 9,435 had a California address when they were excluded, 163 of them in the last 12 months. 47% were excluded on the mandatory grounds (convictions for program fraud, patient abuse or neglect, felony health care fraud or felony controlled-substance offences) and 45% after a health care licence was revoked, suspended or surrendered.
The most common professions among them: nurses and nurse aides (3,088), chiropractors (623) and general practice physicians (435).
SAM.gov lists 5,978 excluded individuals with a California address, many of them the same people.
An OIG exclusion covers every federal health care program, in every state, so someone excluded elsewhere who moves to California is still excluded here: check every hire against the federal lists, wherever they come from.
Neighboring states
Someone who has worked across the state line can be on that state's Medicaid list without being on California's. If you hire from neighboring states, check their lists too:
- Arizona Medicaid exclusion listAHCCCS provider suspensions and terminations: not checked automatically yet
- Nevada Medicaid exclusion listNevada Medicaid exclusion list: not checked automatically yet
- Oregon Medicaid exclusion listno separate list
Monthly monitoring
Monitor your California roster
Save your roster once. ExclusionHQ re-checks everyone against the OIG LEIE, SAM.gov whenever one updates, emails you when something changes, and keeps a dated audit report for every check. The Medi-Cal Suspended and Ineligible Provider List isn't checked automatically yet. From $39 a month for up to 100 people.
Questions
Does California keep its own Medicaid exclusion list?
Yes: the Medi-Cal Suspended and Ineligible Provider List. ExclusionHQ can't check it automatically yet (the open-data file refused our download; being worked on), so check it by hand and keep a record.