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Employee Sanction Screenings

Overview

The UCMC checks prospective employees against several sanction databases. The purpose of the sanction screening is to determine whether any such employee or applicant has been convicted of a crinimal offense related to health care or is listed by a federal agency as debarred, excluded or otherwise ineligible for federal program participation.

The OMCC will not condone the hiring or retaining of an employee or applicant that has been convicted of a crime related to health care or who has been excluded from participation in a federal program.

Technical Overview

All new employees or applicants are screened against four sanction databases to ensure that they qualify for employment: 

1. Office of the Inspector General's List of Excluded Individuals/Entities
2. General Services Administration's Excluded Parties List System
3. State of Illinois Office of Inspector General's Database
4. U.S. Treasury's Specially Designated Nationals List

The first database -- the Office of the Inspector General's ("OIG") database (List of Excluded Inividuals/Entities or LEIE) -- includes over 32,000 excluded individuals for health care compliance infractions. The second database -- the General Services Administration's ("GSA") database (Excluded Parties List System or EPLS) -- includes an additional 7,000 individuals excluded for non-health care violations. The OMCC honors both health care related and non-health care related exclusions.

The OIG database is updated once a month. The GSA database is updated once a week. For more information, please contact the OMCC.

Submission Process

Screenings of prospective BSD employees are performed by the OMCC.  Screening forms are to be filled out completely and faxed to the OMCC at 4-3898.  Once the OMCC staff verifies the form is filled out in its entirety, the screening will be processed within 24 hours and returned to you via email as a PDF file.

Screenings of prospective UCMC employees are performed through Human Resources.

Office of Medical Center Compliance
The University of Chicago Medical Center | 5841 South Maryland Avenue | Chicago, IL 60637
OMCCwebmaster@bsd.uchicago.edu