Provider type · HHS OIG LEIE · August 2026
Laboratory
According to the HHS Office of Inspector General LEIE extract, federal healthcare-program exclusions for a Laboratory category show volume rank, reason mix, and state concentration, not a patient-safety grade.
- 275
- Federal exclusions
- 0.3%
- Share of all LEIE
- #27
- Of 85 provider types
- CA
- 69 rows in CA
The short answer
Conviction: Program-Related Crime is the statutory reason on 191 of 275 LEIE rows tagged to Laboratory (69%).
The live HHS OIG List of Excluded Individuals/Entities lists 275 exclusions tagged to Laboratory (0.3% of tracked rows). Largest state concentration: CA (69 rows). Volume tracks federal billing exposure and audit pathways, not a misconduct rate inside the specialty. Dataset vintage: August 2026.
Heavy LEIE volume band
Laboratory in the heavy-volume third
275 federal exclusions put Laboratory in the densest third of 85 active provider types (#27). Leading statutory reason: Conviction: Program-Related Crime (191, 69% of the category). CA, FL, NY account for the largest share of Laboratory exclusions on record.
Heavy volume (275 rows, 0.3% of corpus) mainly tracks how many laboratory 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 275 Laboratory LEIE rows split by authority family
Exclusive family rollup of statutory headings for this provider type, not the raw reason RankTable below.
Laboratory: Conviction: Program-Related...-led reason mix
Counts from the live HHS OIG LEIE extract for this provider type.
Top states - CA leads Laboratory (25%)
LEIE rows tied to this provider type, not a patient-safety grade.
| # | State | LEIE rows |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CaliforniaCA | 69 |
| 2 | FloridaFL | 62 |
| 3 | New YorkNY | 26 |
| 4 | New JerseyNJ | 21 |
| 5 | PennsylvaniaPA | 15 |
| 6 | MichiganMI | 10 |
| 7 | OhioOH | 9 |
| 8 | MassachusettsMA | 7 |
| 9 | KentuckyKY | 7 |
| 10 | TexasTX | 6 |
Read with Laboratory: What board and exclusion actions mean · All provider types
Nationwide peers near Laboratory'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
- NURSE/NURSES AIDE · 245 LEIE rows · 0.3% of corpus
- EMPLOYEE · 313 LEIE rows · 0.4% of corpus
- HEALTH CARE AIDE · 222 LEIE rows · 0.3% of corpus
- PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT · 195 LEIE rows · 0.2% of corpus
Similar share of all LEIE exclusions
- NURSE/NURSES AIDE · 0.3% share · 245 rows
- EMPLOYEE · 0.4% share · 313 rows
- HEALTH CARE AIDE · 0.3% share · 222 rows
- PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT · 0.2% share · 195 rows
Recent Federal Exclusions - Laboratory
| Name | State | Reason | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jimmy Ray Jones | MT | Conviction: Controlled Substance | 2010-10-20 |
| Consolidated Laboratory Servic | NV | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2010-09-20 |
| Tauqir Khan | NJ | Conviction: Healthcare Fraud | 2010-07-20 |
| Asim Niaz | NJ | Conviction: Healthcare Fraud | 2010-07-20 |
| National Cardio Labs, LLC | NV | Entity Controlled by Sanctioned Individual | 2010-04-20 |
| Haroutyun Harry Gulderyan | CA | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2009-11-19 |
| Robert Bruce Parsons | CA | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2009-11-19 |
| Oganes A Abramyan | CA | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2009-09-20 |
| Igor Grigoryan | CA | Conviction: Controlled Substance | 2009-09-20 |
| Venera Sarkissian | CA | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2009-09-20 |
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.