A Compliance Leader’s Guide to Sanction Screening Software

One excluded individual on your payroll, or one excluded vendor in your supply chain, can trigger civil monetary penalties and put your Medicare participation at risk. Catching them is the job of sanction screening, and for most compliance teams, it is still a manual one.

Manual screening does not scale. There are numerous federal and state exclusion lists to cover, each updated on its own schedule, and a single shared name can produce a false positive that ends in a wrongful termination. Sanction screening software replaces that work with automated checks across every relevant list, but tools vary widely in coverage, automation, and support.

This guide helps compliance leaders understand the market and evaluate vendors with confidence.

Inside, you will find:

• The three factors that make manual sanction screening unreliable
• The exclusion lists every vendor should cover, including the Office of Inspector General (OIG) List of Excluded Individuals and Entities (LEIE) and the System for Award Management (SAM)
• How to compare tools on verification, documentation, alerts, and support
• Four questions to ask every sanction screening vendor before you sign