Provider type · HHS OIG LEIE · August 2026
Therapist
According to the HHS Office of Inspector General LEIE extract, federal healthcare-program exclusions for a Therapist category show volume rank, reason mix, and state concentration, not a patient-safety grade.
- 619
- Federal exclusions
- 0.7%
- Share of all LEIE
- #19
- Of 85 provider types
- CA
- 212 rows in CA
The short answer
License Revocation or Suspension is the statutory reason on 461 of 619 LEIE rows tagged to Therapist (74%).
The live HHS OIG List of Excluded Individuals/Entities lists 619 exclusions tagged to Therapist (0.7% of tracked rows). Largest state concentration: CA (212 rows). Volume tracks federal billing exposure and audit pathways, not a misconduct rate inside the specialty. Dataset vintage: August 2026.
Heavy LEIE volume band
Therapist in the heavy-volume third
619 federal exclusions put Therapist in the densest third of 85 active provider types (#19). Leading statutory reason: License Revocation or Suspension (461, 74% of the category). CA, FL, AZ account for the largest share of Therapist exclusions on record.
Heavy volume (619 rows, 0.7% of corpus) mainly tracks how many therapist providers bill federal programs and how closely those claims are audited , with License Revocation or Suspension 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 619 Therapist LEIE rows split by authority family
Exclusive family rollup of statutory headings for this provider type, not the raw reason RankTable below.
Therapist: License Revocation or Suspe...-led reason mix
Counts from the live HHS OIG LEIE extract for this provider type.
Top states - CA leads Therapist (34%)
LEIE rows tied to this provider type, not a patient-safety grade.
| # | State | LEIE rows |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CaliforniaCA | 212 |
| 2 | FloridaFL | 128 |
| 3 | ArizonaAZ | 36 |
| 4 | New YorkNY | 28 |
| 5 | WashingtonWA | 20 |
| 6 | PennsylvaniaPA | 20 |
| 7 | UtahUT | 19 |
| 8 | TennesseeTN | 16 |
| 9 | IllinoisIL | 13 |
| 10 | ColoradoCO | 12 |
Read with Therapist: What board and exclusion actions mean · All provider types
Nationwide peers near Therapist'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
- Other Business · 621 LEIE rows · 0.7% of corpus
- Mental Health Facility · 560 LEIE rows · 0.7% of corpus
- Counseling · 558 LEIE rows · 0.7% of corpus
- OWNER/OPERATOR · 536 LEIE rows · 0.6% of corpus
Similar share of all LEIE exclusions
- Other Business · 0.7% share · 621 rows
- Mental Health Facility · 0.7% share · 560 rows
- Counseling · 0.7% share · 558 rows
- OWNER/OPERATOR · 0.6% share · 536 rows
Recent Federal Exclusions - Therapist
| Name | State | Reason | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Susan Lynn Cox | CA | License Revocation or Suspension | 2011-08-18 |
| Syed Aijaz Aziz | WV | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2011-07-20 |
| Xuanhua Cui | NY | License Revocation or Suspension | 2011-07-20 |
| Maurya A Godchaux-Ruxin | CA | License Revocation or Suspension | 2011-06-20 |
| Howard Gene Haupt | UT | License Revocation or Suspension | 2011-06-20 |
| David Salomon | CA | License Revocation or Suspension | 2011-05-19 |
| Karl Phillip Braun | NY | License Revocation or Suspension | 2011-04-20 |
| Debbie Dawsey-Davis | SC | Conviction: Program-Related Crime | 2011-04-20 |
| Crystal Kaylene Dyer | CA | License Revocation or Suspension | 2011-04-20 |
| Paul V Farnham | AZ | License Revocation or Suspension | 2011-04-20 |
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.