Provider type · HHS OIG LEIE · August 2026
OSTEOPATHY
According to the HHS Office of Inspector General LEIE extract, federal healthcare-program exclusions for an OSTEOPATHY category show volume rank, reason mix, and state concentration, not a patient-safety grade.
- 363
- Federal exclusions
- 0.4%
- Share of all LEIE
- #25
- Of 85 provider types
- MI
- 47 rows in MI
The short answer
License Revocation or Suspension is the statutory reason on 161 of 363 LEIE rows tagged to OSTEOPATHY (44%).
The live HHS OIG List of Excluded Individuals/Entities lists 363 exclusions tagged to OSTEOPATHY (0.4% of tracked rows). Largest state concentration: MI (47 rows). Volume tracks federal billing exposure and audit pathways, not a misconduct rate inside the specialty. Dataset vintage: August 2026.
Heavy LEIE volume band
OSTEOPATHY in the heavy-volume third
363 federal exclusions put OSTEOPATHY in the densest third of 85 active provider types (#25). Leading statutory reason: License Revocation or Suspension (161, 44% of the category). MI, FL, PA account for the largest share of OSTEOPATHY exclusions on record.
Heavy volume (363 rows, 0.4% of corpus) mainly tracks how many osteopathy 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 363 OSTEOPATHY LEIE rows split by authority family
Exclusive family rollup of statutory headings for this provider type, not the raw reason RankTable below.
OSTEOPATHY exclusion reasons
Counts from the live HHS OIG LEIE extract for this provider type.
Top states for OSTEOPATHY exclusions
LEIE rows tied to this provider type, not a patient-safety grade.
| # | State | LEIE rows |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | MichiganMI | 47 |
| 2 | FloridaFL | 35 |
| 3 | PennsylvaniaPA | 31 |
| 4 | OhioOH | 25 |
| 5 | New JerseyNJ | 22 |
| 6 | ArizonaAZ | 17 |
| 7 | ColoradoCO | 16 |
| 8 | CaliforniaCA | 14 |
| 9 | TexasTX | 12 |
| 10 | OklahomaOK | 12 |
Read with OSTEOPATHY: What board and exclusion actions mean · All provider types
Nationwide peers near OSTEOPATHY'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
- EMPLOYEE · 313 LEIE rows · 0.4% of corpus
- Podiatry · 442 LEIE rows · 0.5% of corpus
- Laboratory · 275 LEIE rows · 0.3% of corpus
- NURSE/NURSES AIDE · 245 LEIE rows · 0.3% of corpus
Similar share of all LEIE exclusions
- EMPLOYEE · 0.4% share · 313 rows
- Podiatry · 0.5% share · 442 rows
- Laboratory · 0.3% share · 275 rows
- NURSE/NURSES AIDE · 0.3% share · 245 rows
Recent Federal Exclusions - OSTEOPATHY
| Name | State | Reason | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charles E Merrill | OH | Managed Care Default | 2011-12-20 |
| Paul Howard Emerson | MI | Conviction: Patient Abuse or Neglect | 2011-10-20 |
| Stephen Joseph Schneider | AR | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2011-08-18 |
| James Edward Breidenstein | OH | Conviction: Patient Abuse or Neglect | 2011-07-20 |
| Charles Steven Krin | MO | License Revocation or Suspension | 2011-07-20 |
| Wayne W Williamson | OK | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2011-07-20 |
| Paul Balikian | AZ | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2011-04-20 |
| Kristie L Nipper-Collins | FL | Managed Care Default | 2011-01-19 |
| Sheila Annette Barnes | OH | Managed Care Default | 2010-11-18 |
| Martin Richard Hobowsky | OH | Managed Care Default | 2010-10-20 |
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.