Provider type · HHS OIG LEIE · August 2026
Healthcare Employee
According to the HHS Office of Inspector General LEIE extract, federal healthcare-program exclusions for a Healthcare Employee category show volume rank, reason mix, and state concentration, not a patient-safety grade.
- 5,389
- Federal exclusions
- 6.4%
- Share of all LEIE
- #4
- Of 85 provider types
- MS
- 423 rows in MS
The short answer
Conviction: Program-Related Crime is the statutory reason on 3,323 of 5,389 LEIE rows tagged to Healthcare Employee (62%).
The live HHS OIG List of Excluded Individuals/Entities lists 5,389 exclusions tagged to Healthcare Employee (6.4% of tracked rows). Largest state concentration: MS (423 rows). Volume tracks federal billing exposure and audit pathways, not a misconduct rate inside the specialty. Dataset vintage: August 2026.
Heavy LEIE volume band
Healthcare Employee in the heavy-volume third
5,389 federal exclusions put Healthcare Employee in the densest third of 85 active provider types (#4). Leading statutory reason: Conviction: Program-Related Crime (3,323, 62% of the category). MS, FL, LA account for the largest share of Healthcare Employee exclusions on record.
Heavy volume (5,389 rows, 6.4% of corpus) mainly tracks how many healthcare employee providers bill federal programs and how closely those claims are audited , with Conviction: Program-Related Crime dominating the statutory mix. Category labels are statutory designations, not severity grades.
Source: HHS OIG List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE) · PlainDiscipline specialty extract · August 2026 · Methodology.
How 5,389 Healthcare Employee LEIE rows split by authority family
Exclusive family rollup of statutory headings for this provider type, not the raw reason RankTable below.
Healthcare Employee: Conviction: Program-Related...-led reason mix
Counts from the live HHS OIG LEIE extract for this provider type.
| # | Statutory reason | LEIE rows | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 3,323 | 62% |
| 2 | Conviction: Patient Abuse or Neglect | 942 | 17% |
| 3 | Conviction: Healthcare Fraud | 723 | 13% |
| 4 | Conviction: Controlled Substance | 192 | 4% |
| 5 | Exclusion or Debarment by Federal Agency | 93 | 2% |
| 6 | Misdemeanor: Healthcare Fraud | 74 | 1% |
| 7 | Fraud, Kickbacks, or Prohibited Activities | 19 | 0% |
| 8 | License Revocation or Suspension | 10 | 0% |
| 9 | Misdemeanor: Controlled Substance | 7 | 0% |
| 10 | Misdemeanor: Federal or State Program Fraud | 6 | 0% |
Top states for Healthcare Employee exclusions
LEIE rows tied to this provider type, not a patient-safety grade.
| # | State | LEIE rows |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | MississippiMS | 423 |
| 2 | FloridaFL | 422 |
| 3 | LouisianaLA | 402 |
| 4 | PennsylvaniaPA | 400 |
| 5 | OhioOH | 330 |
| 6 | CaliforniaCA | 289 |
| 7 | TexasTX | 267 |
| 8 | MinnesotaMN | 222 |
| 9 | IllinoisIL | 221 |
| 10 | New YorkNY | 179 |
Read with Healthcare Employee: What board and exclusion actions mean · All provider types
Nationwide peers near Healthcare Employee'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
- Individual (Unaffiliated) · 4,650 LEIE rows · 5.6% of corpus
- Business Owner/Executive · 4,362 LEIE rows · 5.2% of corpus
- Skilled Nursing Facility · 4,215 LEIE rows · 5.0% of corpus
- Physician · 7,600 LEIE rows · 9.1% of corpus
Similar share of all LEIE exclusions
- Individual (Unaffiliated) · 5.6% share · 4,650 rows
- Business Owner/Executive · 5.2% share · 4,362 rows
- Skilled Nursing Facility · 5.0% share · 4,215 rows
- Physician · 9.1% share · 7,600 rows
Recent Federal Exclusions - Healthcare Employee
| Name | State | Reason | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Muna Ahmed Abdi | MN | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2026-08-20 |
| Dennis Manfred Akers | VA | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2026-08-20 |
| Callie Jean Black | AZ | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2026-08-20 |
| Alexis Bowling | OH | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2026-08-20 |
| Courtney Brown | SC | Misdemeanor: Healthcare Fraud | 2026-08-20 |
| Carolyn Bryant-Taylor | CT | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2026-08-20 |
| Debra Sue Burns | MT | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2026-08-20 |
| Khrystynalita M Chilton | OH | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2026-08-20 |
| Taylor Marie Christian | MN | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2026-08-20 |
| Daylene Curtis | OH | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2026-08-20 |
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.