Iowa Medicaid exclusion list
The Iowa Medicaid Sanctions List is published by the Iowa HHS, Medicaid Program Integrity. ExclusionHQ downloads it every day it changes and checks plan rosters in Iowa against it, alongside the OIG LEIE and SAM.gov.
The free check below covers the federal lists; plans add this state's list. You can also search it on the state's own page.
- People on the list
- 1,073
- copy of Nov 6, 2026
- The state updates it
- when it changes
- Iowa HHS, Medicaid Program Integrity
- Matched by
- exact name, NPI or licence
- the list has no dates of birth
Add dates of birth: the LEIE lists one for almost everyone, and it is what tells two people with the same name apart.
About the Iowa list
Each entry gives the name, NPI, provider type, effective date and reason; businesses are listed too, and plans check the people.
It has no dates of birth, so names must agree exactly or as a nickname and its full form, and NPIs match on their own. A name match there is a result to verify against the entry, not a confirmed match. See how matching works.
If a download fails, or the number of people on it falls by more than a fifth, the last good copy stays in use and the coverage page says so.
Iowa on the federal lists
Of the people on the OIG exclusion list (the LEIE copy of Nov 6, 2026), 1,118 had an Iowa address when they were excluded, 32 of them in the last 12 months. 63% were excluded on the mandatory grounds (convictions for program fraud, patient abuse or neglect, felony health care fraud or felony controlled-substance offences) and 30% after a health care licence was revoked, suspended or surrendered.
The most common professions among them: nurses and nurse aides (626), personal care providers (106) and health care aides (69).
SAM.gov lists 475 excluded individuals with an Iowa 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 Iowa 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 Iowa's. If you hire from neighboring states, check their lists too:
- Illinois Medicaid exclusion listIllinois HFS OIG provider sanctions: not checked automatically yet
- Minnesota Medicaid exclusion listMinnesota DHS excluded providers: not checked automatically yet
- Missouri Medicaid exclusion listMO HealthNet Provider Sanctions List: checked by ExclusionHQ
- Nebraska Medicaid exclusion listNebraska Medicaid Excluded Providers: checked by ExclusionHQ
- South Dakota Medicaid exclusion listno separate list
- Wisconsin Medicaid exclusion listno separate list
Monthly monitoring
Monitor your Iowa roster
Save your roster once. ExclusionHQ re-checks everyone against the OIG LEIE, SAM.gov and the Iowa Medicaid Sanctions List whenever one updates, emails you when something changes, and keeps a dated audit report for every check. From $39 a month for up to 100 people.
Questions
Does Iowa keep its own Medicaid exclusion list?
Yes: the Iowa Medicaid Sanctions List, published by the Iowa HHS, Medicaid Program Integrity. The copy of Nov 6, 2026 lists 1,073 people. Providers check it alongside the OIG LEIE and SAM.gov, and ExclusionHQ plans check all three.