The List of Excluded Individuals and Entities (LEIE) is a federally updated and available list of providers who have been excluded from participating from federal healthcare programs. With over 40 year's worth of exclusion history, we were able to isolate and identify otolaryngologists who were excluded and the most common cause, albeit exceptionally rare, was revocation of their medical license due to negligence.
Keywords: Medicare fraud; Medicare/Medicaid; Medicare/Medicaid exclusion; ethics.