Screen 500 Providers in 10 Minutes

The databases beyond OIG and SAM.gov

OIG LEIE and SAM.gov are the CMS minimum. “Not excluded by OIG” is a low bar. A thorough screening covers:

That's 130+ checks total. Nobody runs all of them by hand. The teams that try burn days per provider. The teams that don't are sitting on risk they can't see.

A provider can clear OIG and SAM.gov and still have a state board suspension you didn't check, an FDA debarment, or half a million in Open Payments from one device company.

What asking Medistill looks like

Medistill plugs into Claude as a data source. You ask a question in plain English, it queries the databases directly. No SQL, no API work, no data team.

For compliance screening, one query checks all 130+ sources and returns a structured report with a risk score.

A real screening looks like this:

The whole check took seconds. All 130+ sources, not just OIG and SAM.

Risk score runs 0-100, graded A through F. You can drill into anything that flags:

Follow-ups work in the same conversation. Drill into any flag, switch providers, ask for more detail. Context carries over.

Batch screening: 500 providers, one query

You don't need a compliance team. You don't need to screen one provider at a time. You paste your NPI list - or provide a spreadsheet - and Medistill screens every provider against all 130+ sources in a single request. 500 providers takes about 10 minutes to generate a full report.

Paste the NPIs, wait 10 minutes, get back a structured report with individual risk scores, flagged findings, and a summary of who needs attention. Run it monthly. Run it before every credentialing committee meeting. Run it when the staffing agency sends over 40 new travelers who all need to be cleared by Monday.

500 providers, 130+ sources each, one query. That's 44,000 individual database checks in about 10 minutes. Manually, at 15 minutes per provider checking just OIG and SAM.gov, the same list would take 125 hours, and that still only covers 2 of the 130+ sources.

You don't need a 3-person compliance team. You need a Medistill subscription and 10 minutes. The only human work left is investigating the flagged ones. That's the part of the job that actually requires human judgment.

What a real compliance report looks like

This is from an actual batch screening of 220 providers at a community hospital. Names and NPIs have been changed. The findings are real.

Of 220 providers, 9 came back as critical - requiring immediate administrative action. Here's what those findings actually look like:

This is what 130-source screening catches that OIG + SAM.gov misses: OFAC sanctions, state board discipline with cross-state alerts, FDA recall associations, financial conflicts needing COI disclosure. None of this shows up in a two-database check.

The full report also includes Section 3 (high industry payments requiring COI review), Section 4 (notable payments requiring disclosure), and a complete 220-provider roster with individual grades and scores. The entire report was generated from a single query in about 10 minutes.

What actually changes

Here's the comparison for screening 500 providers per month:

The time savings matter, but the bigger deal is coverage. Going from 2-5 sources to 130+ catches things manual screening never would: state board actions in states nobody thought to check, FDA debarments, DEA enforcement, financial conflicts through Open Payments.

The other change is re-verification. Most teams do quarterly exclusion checks because the manual process is too time-consuming to do more often. With batch screening, monthly re-verification of your entire roster is practical. Some teams run it continuously, screening every active provider on the first of each month.

That matters because exclusions and board actions happen between credentialing cycles. A provider who was clean in January could have a state board suspension in March. If your next check isn't until June, that's three months of exposure.

Try it with your own provider list

Medistill offers a 50 free credits with full access. Connect it to Claude, submit a list of NPIs, and see the screening results against all 130+ databases in your first session. Cancel anytime before day 8.

If your team is spending hours on manual exclusion checks or paying for a credentialing tool that only covers a fraction of the databases that matter, it's worth seeing what 130-source screening looks like on your actual roster.