What is the most common reason for a Home Health Agency exclusion?

The most common reason for a Home Health Agency exclusion is Conviction: Program-Related Crime (826 cases, 62% of the category), followed by License Revocation or Suspension (239). That single statutory pathway dominates this provider type's LEIE book (62%), so the table below is concentrated rather than evenly mixed.

Is Home Health Agency's exclusion volume above or below average?

Home Health Agency sits in the heavy-volume third of LEIE provider types, ranked #13 of 85 by exclusion count (1,340 rows, 1.6% of corpus). Higher volume mainly tracks federal billing exposure and audit intensity, not misconduct prevalence.

Provider type · HHS OIG LEIE · August 2026

Home Health Agency

According to the HHS Office of Inspector General LEIE extract, federal healthcare-program exclusions for a Home Health Agency category show volume rank, reason mix, and state concentration, not a patient-safety grade.

Compiled by PlainDiscipline · August 11, 2026

1,340
Federal exclusions: 1.6%
Share of all LEIE: #13
Of 85 provider types: FL
138 rows in FL

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The short answer

Conviction: Program-Related Crime is the statutory reason on 826 of 1,340 LEIE rows tagged to Home Health Agency (62%).

The live HHS OIG List of Excluded Individuals/Entities lists 1,340 exclusions tagged to Home Health Agency (1.6% of tracked rows). Largest state concentration: FL (138 rows). Volume tracks federal billing exposure and audit pathways, not a misconduct rate inside the specialty. Dataset vintage: August 2026.

Heavy LEIE volume band

Home Health Agency in the heavy-volume third

1,340 federal exclusions put Home Health Agency in the densest third of 85 active provider types (#13). Leading statutory reason: Conviction: Program-Related Crime (826, 62% of the category). FL, CA, NY account for the largest share of Home Health Agency exclusions on record.

Heavy volume (1,340 rows, 1.6% of corpus) mainly tracks how many home health agency 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 1,340 Home Health Agency LEIE rows split by authority family

Exclusive family rollup of statutory headings for this provider type, not the raw reason RankTable below.

Criminal conviction 963 exclusions (72%) License / federal exclusion 260 exclusions (19%) Program integrity 108 exclusions (8%) Other authority 9 exclusions (1%)

Counts from the live HHS OIG LEIE extract for this provider type.

#	Statutory reason	LEIE rows	Share
1	Conviction: Program-Related Crime	826	62%
2	License Revocation or Suspension	239	18%
3	Entity Controlled by Sanctioned Individual	85	6%
4	Conviction: Patient Abuse or Neglect	71	5%
5	Conviction: Healthcare Fraud	34	3%
6	Exclusion or Debarment by Federal Agency	21	2%
7	Fraud, Kickbacks, or Prohibited Activities	19	1%
8	Misdemeanor: Healthcare Fraud	16	1%
9	Conviction: Program-Related Crime (Alt)	9	1%
10	Misdemeanor: Controlled Substance	5	0%

Home Health Agency is 1.6% of tracked LEIE rows; equal-share across 85 categories would be 1.2%. Volume tracks federal billing exposure, not a misconduct rate.

Top states for Home Health Agency exclusions

LEIE rows tied to this provider type, not a patient-safety grade.

#	State	LEIE rows
1	FloridaFL	138
2	CaliforniaCA	121
3	New YorkNY	116
4	OhioOH	102
5	TexasTX	100
6	MinnesotaMN	54
7	LouisianaLA	52
8	WashingtonWA	43
9	ColoradoCO	43
10	North CarolinaNC	41

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Nationwide peers near Home Health Agency'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

Clinic · 1,279 LEIE rows · 1.5% of corpus
Dental · 1,208 LEIE rows · 1.4% of corpus
Chiropractic · 1,758 LEIE rows · 2.1% of corpus
Transportation Company · 793 LEIE rows · 0.9% of corpus

Similar share of all LEIE exclusions

Clinic · 1.5% share · 1,279 rows
Dental · 1.4% share · 1,208 rows
Chiropractic · 2.1% share · 1,758 rows
Transportation Company · 0.9% share · 793 rows

Recent Federal Exclusions - Home Health Agency

Name	State	Reason	Date
Annette Fleming-Mcclatchey	WV	Conviction: Program-Related Crime	2011-10-20
Patricia Marie Lindell	WY	Controlling a Sanctioned Entity	2011-10-20
Crecida Marie Cade	MN	Conviction: Program-Related Crime	2011-09-20
Tiffany Fayeann Egleberry	OH	Conviction: Program-Related Crime	2011-09-20
Denise Marsh	OH	Conviction: Program-Related Crime	2011-09-20
Sabrina Marie Peterson	MN	Conviction: Program-Related Crime	2011-09-20
Sonja S England	LA	Conviction: Program-Related Crime	2011-08-18
Lurina Lighty	PA	Conviction: Program-Related Crime	2011-08-18
Ema Gomez Mitchell	NV	Controlling a Sanctioned Entity	2011-08-18
Alicia Narvaez	TX	Conviction: Program-Related Crime	2011-08-18

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.