Provider type · HHS OIG LEIE · August 2026
Podiatry
According to the HHS Office of Inspector General LEIE extract, federal healthcare-program exclusions for a Podiatry category show volume rank, reason mix, and state concentration, not a patient-safety grade.
- 442
- Federal exclusions
- 0.5%
- Share of all LEIE
- #24
- Of 85 provider types
- NY
- 89 rows in NY
The short answer
Conviction: Program-Related Crime is the statutory reason on 164 of 442 LEIE rows tagged to Podiatry (37%).
The live HHS OIG List of Excluded Individuals/Entities lists 442 exclusions tagged to Podiatry (0.5% of tracked rows). Largest state concentration: NY (89 rows). Volume tracks federal billing exposure and audit pathways, not a misconduct rate inside the specialty. Dataset vintage: August 2026.
Heavy LEIE volume band
Podiatry in the heavy-volume third
442 federal exclusions put Podiatry in the densest third of 85 active provider types (#24). Leading statutory reason: Conviction: Program-Related Crime (164, 37% of the category). NY, CA, NJ account for the largest share of Podiatry exclusions on record.
Heavy volume (442 rows, 0.5% of corpus) mainly tracks how many podiatry 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 442 Podiatry LEIE rows split by authority family
Exclusive family rollup of statutory headings for this provider type, not the raw reason RankTable below.
Podiatry exclusion reasons
Counts from the live HHS OIG LEIE extract for this provider type.
Top states - NY leads Podiatry (20%)
LEIE rows tied to this provider type, not a patient-safety grade.
| # | State | LEIE rows |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | New YorkNY | 89 |
| 2 | CaliforniaCA | 66 |
| 3 | New JerseyNJ | 32 |
| 4 | FloridaFL | 32 |
| 5 | OhioOH | 27 |
| 6 | PennsylvaniaPA | 24 |
| 7 | MichiganMI | 20 |
| 8 | IllinoisIL | 18 |
| 9 | MarylandMD | 13 |
| 10 | VirginiaVA | 12 |
Read with Podiatry: What board and exclusion actions mean · All provider types
Nationwide peers near Podiatry'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
- Psychology · 510 LEIE rows · 0.6% of corpus
- OSTEOPATHY · 363 LEIE rows · 0.4% of corpus
- OWNER/OPERATOR · 536 LEIE rows · 0.6% of corpus
- Counseling · 558 LEIE rows · 0.7% of corpus
Similar share of all LEIE exclusions
- Psychology · 0.6% share · 510 rows
- OSTEOPATHY · 0.4% share · 363 rows
- OWNER/OPERATOR · 0.6% share · 536 rows
- Counseling · 0.7% share · 558 rows
Recent Federal Exclusions - Podiatry
| Name | State | Reason | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Craig R Lane | MD | Managed Care Default | 2018-11-20 |
| Ira R Bell | NY | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2011-05-19 |
| Todd Russel Monroe | SD | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2011-05-19 |
| Franklin Beltre | LA | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2011-04-20 |
| Douglas Herzlich | NY | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2011-04-20 |
| Manuela K Alana | TX | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2011-02-20 |
| Edward Michael Horvath | MD | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2010-10-20 |
| Arthur Carl Haspel | FL | Fraud, Kickbacks, or Prohibited Activities | 2010-09-01 |
| Eugene Jeffrey Barney | CA | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2010-07-20 |
| Albert Kalajian | NY | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2010-07-20 |
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.