SAM.gov exclusion search

SAM.gov's public records carry no date of birth. A name match there can't be cleared by date of birth, so we match names strictly (the same name, or a nickname and its full form) and ask you to verify what remains against the record's address and agency.

Many SAM records are the same people the OIG excluded; those are checked on the OIG exclusion list, with dates of birth. Records whose address shows the same person as an LEIE entry borrow that entry's date of birth.

The OIG exclusion list (the LEIE) holds only the exclusions HHS-OIG imposes: people and businesses barred from Medicare, Medicaid and the other federal health care programs. SAM.gov, run by the General Services Administration, holds exclusion records from many federal agencies, OIG's exclusions among them, and covers federal contracts and federal assistance, not only health care.

They also publish different details. The LEIE file gives a date of birth for almost every individual (98.9% in the current file); SAM.gov's public records give none, so a name match there is settled with the record's address and the agency that took the action. And an exclusion by an agency other than HHS appears on SAM.gov but never on the LEIE.

So if you bill federal health care programs, check both: the LEIE for health care exclusions, SAM.gov for exclusions by every other federal agency. State Medicaid agencies must check both every month (42 CFR 455.436).

We use the public exclusions extract that SAM.gov publishes each day, the same data as SAM.gov's exclusion search. Each record names the agency that took the action, the cause and the date it ends, if it does; federal rules (FAR 9.404) send questions about a record to that agency.