Healthcare organizations must screen against the OIG SAM databases to ensure they do not work with individuals or entities excluded from federal healthcare programs like Medicare and Medicaid. The Office of Inspector General (OIG) maintains the List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE), updated monthly, while the System for Award Management (SAM) tracks exclusions from federal contracts, updated annually....

As discussed in a March 2021 Streamline Verify article, SAM.gov went through an extensive overhaul to improve functionality and accessibility. First introduced as a beta site and then revised based on user feedback, the ...

As one of the two primary exclusion screening lists against which federal contractors are required to check routinely, the health care industry relies on the accuracy of SAM.gov database to make hiring and retention deci...

The regular screening of federal lists for individuals who are ineligible to participate in federal contracts is required of all federal healthcare contractors. The OIG and SAM lists, as they are commonly called, are the...

Since 2017, the General Services Agency’s (GSA) Integrated Award Environment program office has been working to consolidate all related procurement tools into a single modernized online environment. The GSA manages fed...

EXCLUSION LISTS DEMYSTIFIED Federal and state exclusion lists abound. There are two primary federal lists, which are addressed in this article, but to there are many other lists that should be considered when screenin...

Databases have long had difficulty displaying the name Null. That is because database systems are wired to read this as a value or more accurately, the non-value “null”. It is deeply ingrained in their programming co...