Exclusion Screening LLC vs Harper
Checked against their own pages, October 2026
A monthly exclusion screening service for healthcare employers, sold on published subscription prices through its SAFER platform, with a compliance hotline. Harper is a free search across the HHS OIG LEIE, SAM.gov and every state Medicaid exclusion list it can read, with the source and freshness of each list published. Below is what each says about its own coverage, with links to where they say it.
Side by side
| Exclusion Screening LLC | Harper | |
|---|---|---|
| State Medicaid lists | The homepage says 42 state exclusion databases. The pricing page says all 46 state lists.Source: Homepage, Pricing | Every state that publishes a list: 43 of the 50 states and DC, each named with its record count and last read date. 40 read successfully on our latest run, as of October 14, 2026. |
| Federal and other lists | HHS OIG LEIE and SAM.gov on every plan, and its homepage also lists the SSA Death Master File.Source: Pricing, Homepage | HHS OIG LEIE (84,030 records) and SAM.gov exclusions (169,028), as of October 14, 2026. No CMS Preclusion List, Medicare Opt-Out or Death Master File. |
| Refresh | Screening is sold as a monthly service.Source: Pricing | Every source is read weekly, and the date of the last successful read is published per source. |
| Price | $30 a month for up to 100 screens against LEIE, SAM and one state list; $40 a month for up to 100 screens against all its state lists; custom pricing above 100.Source: Pricing | Free. |
| Free name search | No free name search. Its tools page offers a compliance self-assessment and lists a single-name LEIE lookup as coming.Source: Tools | Yes. Any name, no account, plus an API and an MCP server for AI assistants. |
Where Exclusion Screening LLC offers more
- A managed monthly screening service through its SAFER platform. Harper is a search, not a monitoring service, today.
- A compliance hotline product alongside the screening service.
- The SSA Death Master File, which Harper does not search.
- Published, predictable pricing for small employers.
Where Harper is different
- Searching any name on Harper is free, with no account and no monthly screen cap.
- Harper names every state list it reads, with its record count and the date it was last read, instead of a total. Exclusion Screening gives two different totals on its own pages.
- Harper shows which sources failed on the latest read, on a public status page.
Which to use
Exclusion Screening LLC is a good fit for a small practice or agency that wants someone else to run a monthly screen and keep the records, at a known price. Harper fits a quick check of a name, a roster or a vendor against every list without signing up, or a team that wants to see exactly which lists were checked and how current each was.
Other comparisons
Vendor facts were read from the linked pages in October 2026 and may have changed since. If something here is wrong, the corrections page says how to tell us.