Provider type · HHS OIG LEIE · August 2026
Counseling
According to the HHS Office of Inspector General LEIE extract, federal healthcare-program exclusions for a Counseling category show volume rank, reason mix, and state concentration, not a patient-safety grade.
- 558
- Federal exclusions
- 0.7%
- Share of all LEIE
- #21
- Of 85 provider types
- TX
- 77 rows in TX
The short answer
Conviction: Program-Related Crime is the statutory reason on 260 of 558 LEIE rows tagged to Counseling (47%).
The live HHS OIG List of Excluded Individuals/Entities lists 558 exclusions tagged to Counseling (0.7% of tracked rows). Largest state concentration: TX (77 rows). Volume tracks federal billing exposure and audit pathways, not a misconduct rate inside the specialty. Dataset vintage: August 2026.
Heavy LEIE volume band
Counseling in the heavy-volume third
558 federal exclusions put Counseling in the densest third of 85 active provider types (#21). Leading statutory reason: Conviction: Program-Related Crime (260, 47% of the category). TX, CA, WA account for the largest share of Counseling exclusions on record.
Heavy volume (558 rows, 0.7% of corpus) mainly tracks how many counseling providers bill federal programs and how closely those claims are audited . Category labels are statutory designations, not severity grades.
Source: HHS OIG List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE) · PlainDiscipline specialty extract · August 2026 · Methodology.
How 558 Counseling LEIE rows split by authority family
Exclusive family rollup of statutory headings for this provider type, not the raw reason RankTable below.
Counseling exclusion reasons
Counts from the live HHS OIG LEIE extract for this provider type.
Top states for Counseling exclusions
LEIE rows tied to this provider type, not a patient-safety grade.
| # | State | LEIE rows |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | TexasTX | 77 |
| 2 | CaliforniaCA | 58 |
| 3 | WashingtonWA | 39 |
| 4 | New YorkNY | 35 |
| 5 | FloridaFL | 28 |
| 6 | ColoradoCO | 27 |
| 7 | PennsylvaniaPA | 25 |
| 8 | MichiganMI | 25 |
| 9 | GeorgiaGA | 22 |
| 10 | OklahomaOK | 17 |
Read with Counseling: What board and exclusion actions mean · All provider types
Nationwide peers near Counseling's heavy volume
Cross-category peers matched on federal exclusion volume and share of the LEIE corpus, not the state concentration table above.
Similar exclusion volume
- Mental Health Facility · 560 LEIE rows · 0.7% of corpus
- OWNER/OPERATOR · 536 LEIE rows · 0.6% of corpus
- Psychology · 510 LEIE rows · 0.6% of corpus
- Therapist · 619 LEIE rows · 0.7% of corpus
Similar share of all LEIE exclusions
- Mental Health Facility · 0.7% share · 560 rows
- OWNER/OPERATOR · 0.6% share · 536 rows
- Psychology · 0.6% share · 510 rows
- Therapist · 0.7% share · 619 rows
Recent Federal Exclusions - Counseling
| Name | State | Reason | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aleksey Lisitsa | CA | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2011-09-20 |
| Jodee A Wallace | CA | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2011-09-20 |
| Alton Bates | AL | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2011-08-18 |
| Edward Alexander Birts | TX | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2011-08-18 |
| Katrina Beth Hintz | SD | Conviction: Healthcare Fraud | 2011-08-18 |
| Robert Ivory Levy | KY | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2011-08-18 |
| Kim Michael Reid | SD | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2011-08-18 |
| Leigh Stockwell Van Meeteren | MN | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2011-08-18 |
| Larry Darnell Barringer | TX | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2011-07-20 |
| Philo Nwanna Chekwas | TX | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2011-07-20 |
Source: HHS OIG LEIE
Source: HHS OIG List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE) Federal exclusion data from the HHS Office of Inspector General (LEIE). Provider-type categories are as recorded in the LEIE dataset. This information is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical or legal advice
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.