The Excluded Party Search System (EPSS™) software provides users with the capability to search for sanctioned or excluded parties within the combined master database published by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), in addition to numerous sanction listings from state Medicaid agencies.  The software is designed to allow users to perform a quick single search (which is ideal for pre-employment screenings) or a more thorough batch search (where a list of individuals or companies is submitted for searching). 

To determine whether a group of individuals (or vendors) are present in the OIG or the GSA database can be a tedious and very resource intensive process.  This is where EPSS™ shines.  It is specifically developed to aid in substantially reducing the time required to complete the search processes.  EPSS™ allows groups of parties, such as the entire employee list, to be processed in batch mode.  Each employee record is compared to the combined master database of excluded parties.  The search engine phonetically looks for all records with similar names in the database and presents users with results that are summarized and prepared for final review by provider personnel.

Originally developed as a client/server application, EPSS™ is now available in both stand-alone client/server version and a thin-client, web-based version.  The EPSS™ stand-alone version is based on the Microsoft® Access 2003 and runs on many popular Windows® operating system platforms.   The EPSS™ Online Search Engine is the new thin-client, web-based version of the original EPSS™ software.  Designed from the ground-up using the latest Microsoft architecture and technologies, EPSS™ Online Search Engine provides 24x7 availability, intuitive user interfaces, comprehensive and powerful searching, automatic monthly updates from the sanctioning bodies, but yet versatile enough to let users perform the searches from a PC at the office, in the car, at the hotel, on the plane, or anywhere in the world.

Common to both versions is the renowned state-of-the-art search engine that is widely used by many governmental agencies and well-known corporations all over the world.  Not only that the search engine looks for exact match in spellings of the names, it also determines the match based on the phonetic spellings of the names and nicknames from its own extensive database of acronyms and nicknames.

If you would like more information about our family of EPSS™ products, please contact us and one of our sales representatives will get in touch with you.