Sanction Registries were developed by the government to help control and prohibit people or entities that have violated specific Federal regulations from doing business with other people or entities in the U.S.

Many organizations follow the Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) minimum requirement of verifying prior to employment, and on an annual basis, that an individual does not appear on the OIG List of Excluded Individuals (LEIE) and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) System for Award Management (SAM) (includes Excluded Parties List System (EPLS)).

Federal sanction list checks may not be enough to protect health care organizations from serious risks and penalties because they are updated intermittently, leaving gaps in time between when an individual is sanctioned and when that information is added to the lists. To minimize the risk of employing a sanctioned or excluded party, DDS has integrated information from FACIS® (Fraud and Abuse Control Information System).

Trying to be as efficient as possible, DDS has developed a combination of sanction and excluded party searches and labeled it under one banner for specific areas to be searched.