Provider type · HHS OIG LEIE · August 2026
Physician
According to the HHS Office of Inspector General LEIE extract, federal healthcare-program exclusions for a Physician category show volume rank, reason mix, and state concentration, not a patient-safety grade.
- 7,600
- Federal exclusions
- 9.1%
- Share of all LEIE
- #3
- Of 85 provider types
- CA
- 1,216 rows in CA
The short answer
License Revocation or Suspension is the statutory reason on 3,521 of 7,600 LEIE rows tagged to Physician (46%).
The live HHS OIG List of Excluded Individuals/Entities lists 7,600 exclusions tagged to Physician (9.1% of tracked rows). Largest state concentration: CA (1,216 rows). Volume tracks federal billing exposure and audit pathways, not a misconduct rate inside the specialty. Dataset vintage: August 2026.
Heavy LEIE volume band
Physician in the heavy-volume third
7,600 federal exclusions put Physician in the densest third of 85 active provider types (#3). Leading statutory reason: License Revocation or Suspension (3,521, 46% of the category). CA, NY, FL account for the largest share of Physician exclusions on record.
Heavy volume (7,600 rows, 9.1% of corpus) mainly tracks how many physician 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 7,600 Physician LEIE rows split by authority family
Exclusive family rollup of statutory headings for this provider type, not the raw reason RankTable below.
Physician exclusion reasons
Counts from the live HHS OIG LEIE extract for this provider type.
| # | Statutory reason | LEIE rows | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | License Revocation or Suspension | 3,521 | 46% |
| 2 | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 1,724 | 23% |
| 3 | Conviction: Controlled Substance | 861 | 11% |
| 4 | Conviction: Healthcare Fraud | 370 | 5% |
| 5 | Conviction: Patient Abuse or Neglect | 367 | 5% |
| 6 | Managed Care Default | 277 | 4% |
| 7 | Exclusion or Debarment by Federal Agency | 118 | 2% |
| 8 | Misdemeanor: Federal or State Program Fraud | 98 | 1% |
| 9 | Fraud, Kickbacks, or Prohibited Activities | 89 | 1% |
| 10 | Peer Review Organization Recommendation | 49 | 1% |
Top states for Physician exclusions
LEIE rows tied to this provider type, not a patient-safety grade.
| # | State | LEIE rows |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CaliforniaCA | 1,216 |
| 2 | New YorkNY | 797 |
| 3 | FloridaFL | 739 |
| 4 | TexasTX | 381 |
| 5 | PennsylvaniaPA | 342 |
| 6 | IllinoisIL | 263 |
| 7 | OhioOH | 262 |
| 8 | New JerseyNJ | 250 |
| 9 | MichiganMI | 201 |
| 10 | KentuckyKY | 198 |
Read with Physician: What board and exclusion actions mean · All provider types
Nationwide peers near Physician'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
- Healthcare Employee · 5,389 LEIE rows · 6.4% of corpus
- 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
Similar share of all LEIE exclusions
- Healthcare Employee · 6.4% share · 5,389 rows
- 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
Recent Federal Exclusions - Physician
| Name | State | Reason | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher David Adams | NC | License Revocation or Suspension | 2026-08-20 |
| Susan Arulmalar Arogyasami | NY | License Revocation or Suspension | 2026-08-20 |
| Fritz John Baumgartner | CA | Conviction: Healthcare Fraud | 2026-08-20 |
| Timothy P Besser | FL | License Revocation or Suspension | 2026-08-20 |
| Travis Brandon Bryant | FL | License Revocation or Suspension | 2026-08-20 |
| Charles Edward Ii Chandler | GA | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2026-08-20 |
| Ajay Kumar Doddapaneni | FL | License Revocation or Suspension | 2026-08-20 |
| Daniel Joseph Donofrio | FL | License Revocation or Suspension | 2026-08-20 |
| Thomas Eugene Draschil | UT | License Revocation or Suspension | 2026-08-20 |
| Steven B Friedenthal | FL | License Revocation or Suspension | 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.