Know Every Vendor, Provider, and Partner You Work With

Screen against exclusion lists, sanctions, ownership, and adverse-media risk, and monitor them continuously.
How healthcare organizations can strengthen their screening and monitoring

Healthcare organizations work with a huge base of vendors, suppliers, providers, and partners, and every one carries risk that regulators, and patients, hold you accountable for. Employ or pay an excluded or sanctioned party, and you can lose reimbursement and face serious penalties. A stronger approach treats screening as continuous: check every vendor, provider, and partner, and the people who really own them, against exclusion lists and sanctions before you engage, then keep them monitored. Beady makes that practical, combining deep screening at onboarding with daily monitoring, so a new exclusion, sanction, or scandal reaches you as it happens.

How healthcare organizations can strengthen screening and monitoring
Why traditional and manual checks fall short for healthcare

Manual screening can’t keep up with healthcare’s scale or its rules. You engage vendors, providers, and partners constantly, and checking each one against exclusion lists, sanctions, ownership, and history by hand is slow and easy to miss, yet regulators expect it done regularly. Ownership is a blind spot: the real party behind a vendor is often hidden behind holding companies a quick search never untangles. And a check at onboarding is a one-time snapshot. A provider or vendor that was clear last month can be excluded, sanctioned, or charged today, and a one-off check will never tell you.

Why traditional and manual checks fall short for healthcare
Why screening and ongoing monitoring both matter in healthcare

The two moments carry different risks, and regulators expect both. At onboarding, the question is whether a vendor, provider, or partner, and the people behind them, are who they claim to be, and whether anything, an exclusion, a sanction, a criminal record, should stop you. Afterward, the question is whether anything has changed. Exclusion lists update constantly, so a party cleared at onboarding can be excluded next month, and screening only once leaves you exposed and out of compliance. Beady covers both, a thorough check upfront and continuous monitoring after, so your view of every party stays current.

Why screening and ongoing monitoring both matter in healthcare
What one excluded or sanctioned party costs a healthcare organization

In healthcare, one excluded or sanctioned party can cost far more than a single contract. Employ or pay an excluded provider or vendor, and you can lose Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, face penalties for every claim, and expose yourself to False Claims Act liability. A partner tied to corruption or kickbacks can breach anti-kickback and anti-bribery law. And the damage to patient trust and your reputation can outlast any fine. Most of it is avoidable with proper screening. Beady checks every vendor, provider, and partner, and who owns them, against exclusion lists and sanctions before you’re exposed, then keeps watching.

What one excluded or sanctioned party costs a healthcare organization
How AI makes healthcare screening better

AI is what lets a healthcare organization screen a huge vendor and provider base without slowing care down. Beady checks a vendor, provider, or partner, and the people behind them, against exclusion lists, sanctions, adverse media, and 100,000+ sources in minutes, maps ownership across 200M+ entities and officers, and strips out up to 95% of the noise, so your team sees real risk, not false positives. Then it keeps monitoring daily, so a new exclusion, sanction, or charge reaches you within hours. Every finding links back to its source, so your compliance is fast, thorough, and defensible.

How AI makes healthcare screening better
01 Clinical Risks
Here we are dealing with the risks connected directly to patient care, from medical errors through to adverse events and safety lapses. Clinical teams manage these through protocols, training, and quality systems, which sets them apart from the third-party and compliance risks Beady screens for.
02 Operational Risks
The risks that disrupt day-to-day operations, from staffing and supply shortages to a vendor failure. Beady helps on the third-party side, flagging a supplier or partner in trouble early, so a compliance or integrity problem doesn’t become an operational one.
03 Financial Risks
The risks to an organization’s financial health, from lost reimbursement to fraud and penalties. Beady helps prevent a major source of these, screening vendors and providers against exclusion lists and sanctions so an excluded party doesn’t cost you reimbursement or trigger fines.
04 Cybersecurity Risk
This is the risk of breaches, ransomware, and the exposure of patient data, and it ranks among the top threats in healthcare. It sits within the discipline of information security, managed through technical controls and HIPAA compliance, and it stands apart from the entity and compliance screening that Beady provides.

One excluded provider can cost the contract

Providers and vendors checked against exclusion lists and sanctions, then monitored daily.

Best Practices for Risk Management in Healthcare

Regular Risk Assessments and Audits

Sound risk management begins with assessing risk on a regular basis, not just once. Beady supports this on the third-party side by screening vendors and providers on an ongoing basis and keeping source-linked, audit-ready records of every check for your assessments and audits.

Regular risk assessments and audits
Strong Reporting and Incident-Response Systems

When something goes wrong, fast reporting and a quick response are what limit the damage. Beady contributes to this by flagging a new exclusion, sanction, or scandal tied to a vendor or provider within hours, so your team can respond to a third-party issue before it has the chance to escalate.

Strong reporting and incident response systems
A Culture of Safety and Compliance

In the best organizations, compliance is simply part of the job, not an annual event people brace for. Beady helps you get there. It makes third-party screening consistent, runs it automatically, and keeps a record of every step. So when an audit comes, there is nothing to scramble for. The work is already done and it is defensible.

A culture of safety and compliance
Technology for Monitoring and Analytics

Manual checks simply cannot keep pace with modern healthcare, which is why leading organizations lean on technology. Beady is exactly that when it comes to third-party risk: artificial intelligence that screens across more than 100,000 sources, filters out the noise, and monitors your vendors and providers continuously.

Technology for monitoring and analytics

What Is a Healthcare Compliance Due Diligence Checklist?

A compliance due diligence checklist is what a healthcare organization works through before engaging a vendor, provider, or partner. It spans several areas, and Beady covers the ones that turn on who a party really is.
Legal compliance in healthcare
Legal Compliance
Confirming a party isn’t excluded, sanctioned, or barred from federal healthcare programs, and has no disqualifying legal history. This is core to Beady, which screens against exclusion lists, sanctions, criminal records, and litigation in one pass.
Financial compliance in healthcare
Financial Compliance
Checking a party for financial-crime exposure, fraud, and the kickback risks healthcare regulators watch closely. Beady helps here, screening vendors, providers, and partners for sanctions, fraud, and corruption-related adverse media that signal financial-compliance risk.
Operational compliance in healthcare
Operational Compliance
Verifying a party meets the operational and regulatory standards for the services it provides, from licensing to accreditation. This is largely an operational and credentialing exercise, distinct from the entity-risk screening Beady focuses on.
Ethical compliance in healthcare
Ethical Compliance
At its core, this means confirming that a party conducts itself with integrity and stays clear of corruption, misconduct, and conflicts of interest. Beady contributes to that by screening vendors, providers, and partners for adverse media, signals of corruption, and integrity red flags that expose a problem.
Data privacy and security compliance in healthcare
Data Privacy and Security Compliance
Confirming a party handles patient and organizational data safely and in line with HIPAA and privacy law. This is an information-security and data-governance exercise, separate from the entity and compliance screening Beady provides.
01 Screen Against Healthcare Exclusion Lists
Employing or paying an excluded party can cost you federal reimbursement and bring penalties down on your organization. Beady screens vendors, providers, and staff against healthcare exclusion lists, including the OIG LEIE and SAM exclusions, and refreshes them regularly, so that an excluded party is caught before you engage rather than at audit.
02 Screen Vendors, Suppliers and Service Providers
Every vendor and supplier you rely on carries risk that reaches straight into your organization. Beady screens the companies and the people behind them against exclusion lists, sanctions, and adverse media, so that a high-risk or excluded vendor never ends up in your supply chain or your billing.
03 Screen Providers, Practitioners and Referral Partners
The providers and partners you work with and refer to carry both compliance and reputational risk. Beady screens practitioners, provider groups, and referral partners against exclusion lists, sanctions, criminal records, and adverse-media sources, so that a problem surfaces before it can affect your patients or your standing.
04 Screen Against Sanctions and PEP Exposure
Anyone trading under your name, a franchisee, a vendor, a brand partner, is effectively an extension of your brand. Beady checks each of them, along with the people behind them, against sanctions and adverse-media risk. The goal is to stop a compromised party before it damages your name or channels risk back to you through the relationship.
05 Map Ownership and Uncover Who Really Owns a Vendor
A vendor is only as clean as who really controls it. Beady maps ownership across 200M+ entities and officers, tracing through holding companies to the real owners, so an excluded, sanctioned, or high-risk party doesn’t sit hidden behind a legitimate-looking vendor or provider.
06 Catch Fraud, Corruption and Integrity Red Flags
Healthcare fraud, kickbacks, and corruption carry heavy penalties, and pharma faces sharp anti-bribery scrutiny. Beady checks vendors, partners, and the people behind them for the arrests, charges, litigation, and adverse media that reveal a bad actor, so an integrity problem surfaces in screening, not in an enforcement action.
07 Screen Against Adverse Media and Reputational Risk
A vendor or provider caught in a scandal reflects on the organization that engaged them. Beady scans 100,000+ sources for adverse media tied to a vendor, provider, or partner, so a reputational or integrity problem surfaces before it becomes a story that erodes patient trust.
08 Monitor Vendors, Providers and Partners Continuously
Because exclusion lists update all the time, a party that was cleared can find itself excluded just a month later. Beady meets this by keeping your vendors, providers, and partners under a daily watch, which means a new exclusion, sanction, or charge reaches you within hours. The effect is that you stay compliant in the stretches between the reviews regulators expect.

Where Beady Fits Across Healthcare

Exclusion and sanctions screening
Exclusion and Sanctions Screening
Work with a practitioner or a provider group and you take on their compliance risk too. Beady checks each of them against exclusion lists, sanctions, criminal records, and adverse-media sources. Think of it as backup for your credentialing. An excluded or high-risk provider surfaces before they ever treat patients or submit a bill in your name.
Vendor and supplier onboarding
Vendor and Supplier Onboarding
Before you onboard a vendor or supplier, you should know who it is and who owns it. Beady runs KYB checks and maps ownership, screening for exclusions, sanctions, litigation, and adverse media, so that you engage vendors with a clear view of the risk rather than nothing more than a signed contract.
Provider and practitioner screening
Provider and Practitioner Screening
The practitioners and provider groups you work with carry compliance risk. Beady screens them against exclusion lists, sanctions, criminal, and adverse-media sources, complementing your credentialing so an excluded or high-risk provider is caught before they treat patients or bill under your organization.
Pharma and device partner screening
Pharma and Device Partner Screening
Pharmaceutical and device companies face sharp anti-kickback and anti-bribery scrutiny in the way they engage healthcare professionals and partners. Beady screens distributors, partners, and healthcare professionals against sanctions, politically exposed persons records, and corruption-related adverse media, so an engagement does not leave you exposed to FCPA or anti-kickback liability.
Ownership and beneficial owner mapping
Ownership and Beneficial-Owner Mapping
Who really owns a vendor or provider is often hidden on purpose. Beady maps beneficial ownership across more than 200 million entities and officers, tracing through holding companies all the way to the true owners. That way, an excluded or sanctioned party sitting behind a legitimate-looking entity does not go undetected.
Ongoing monitoring and re-screening
Ongoing Monitoring and Re-Screening
Compliance was never meant to be a single check, given how constantly exclusion lists shift. To keep pace, Beady rescreens your vendors, providers, and partners on a daily basis, ensuring that a new exclusion, sanction, or charge is flagged as it occurs. This maintains your compliance in the stretches between the periodic reviews that regulators demand.
Investigations and escalations
Investigations and Escalations
When a vendor or provider raises a flag, you need answers quickly. Beady gives your compliance team a source-linked view of any company or individual, drawing across exclusion lists, sanctions, criminal records, litigation, and adverse-media sources. With that in hand, you can look into a concern or an escalation without delay and act with real confidence.

What Beady Checks

People

Behind every provider, vendor, and partner is a set of people, and in healthcare that’s often where compliance risk sits. Beady screens the individuals you deal with: practitioners, owners, executives, and connected individuals. It checks each against healthcare exclusion lists, sanctions, PEP, criminal and most-wanted lists, and adverse media across 100,000+ sources, and flags politically exposed people whose position adds risk. Rather than stopping at a name on a contract or a claim, Beady looks past it to who a person really is and what their history shows, so you know exactly who you’re engaging.

What Beady checks: people in healthcare
Organizations

Every company you contract with brings risk along with it, and that risk is rarely obvious from the name on the paperwork. Beady screens vendors, suppliers, provider groups, and the entities connected to them against exclusion lists, sanctions, litigation, adverse media, and watchlists. Shell companies and deliberately opaque structures draw particular scrutiny, since these are the classic tools for hiding who truly controls a business or for masking an excluded or sanctioned party. Because Beady traces ownership across upward of 200 million legal entities and their officers, you get to see the real organisation behind a vendor or provider before the engagement begins.

What Beady checks: healthcare organizations
Ownership and Connections

In healthcare compliance, the risk usually hides in ownership. An excluded party sets up a new company and carries on. A vendor turns out to share an owner with someone under sanctions. You would never catch either from the name on the invoice. Beady follows the trail instead. It maps beneficial ownership and the connections around a vendor or provider across a database of more than 200 million entities and their officers, and it keeps going until it reaches the people who actually own and control the business. Related parties, conflicts, ties to excluded, sanctioned, or high-risk entities, all of it comes to the surface. So you see the vendor in front of you and, just as important, whoever stands behind it.

What Beady checks: ownership and connections in healthcare

Across Healthcare

Healthcare is broad, and so is Beady. Screen and monitor the vendors, providers, and partners you engage, wherever you operate in healthcare.
Hospitals and health systems
Hospitals and Health Systems
Screen vendors, providers, and staff against exclusion lists, sanctions, and adverse-media risk, protecting reimbursement and patients.
Pharmaceuticals
Pharmaceuticals
Screen distributors, partners, and HCPs against sanctions, exclusions, and corruption-related adverse media, in a sector under sharp anti-bribery scrutiny.
Biotech
Biotech
Screen partners, investors, and suppliers against sanctions, exclusions, and adverse-media risk across complex partnerships.
Medical devices
Medical Devices
Screen suppliers, distributors, and partners against sanctions, exclusions, and adverse-media risk across a global market.
Health insurance and payers
Health Insurance and Payers
Screen network providers and vendors against exclusion lists, sanctions, and fraud signals, protecting your programs.
Clinics and physician groups
Clinics and Physician Groups
Screen practitioners, vendors, and referral partners against exclusion lists, sanctions, and adverse media before they treat or bill.
Long-term and elderly care
Long-Term and Elderly Care
Screen staff, vendors, and partners against exclusion lists, sanctions, and adverse-media risk, protecting a vulnerable population.
Labs and diagnostics
Labs and Diagnostics
Screen vendors, referral partners, and the people behind them against exclusion lists, sanctions, and adverse-media risk.
Digital health and health technology
Digital Health and HealthTech
Screen the partners, vendors, and providers behind your platform against exclusions, sanctions, and adverse-media risk.
Home health
Home Health
Screen staff, vendors, and partners against exclusion lists, sanctions, and adverse-media risk, protecting patients and reimbursement.
Mental and behavioral health
Mental and Behavioral Health
Screen practitioners, vendors, and partners against exclusion lists, sanctions, and adverse-media risk before they treat patients.
Dental
Dental
Screen practitioners, vendors, and partners against exclusion lists, sanctions, and adverse-media risk across your practice.
Medical distribution and supply
Medical Distribution and Supply
Screen suppliers, distributors, and the people behind them against sanctions, exclusions, and adverse-media risk across your supply chain.

Set Once. Monitor Daily

For a healthcare organization, this is essential: a thorough screen before you engage a vendor or provider, then continuous monitoring against constantly-changing exclusion lists. Screen at onboarding, watch always.

One-Time Screening

At onboarding, Beady runs a complete screen on a vendor, provider, or partner, and the people who own it, against healthcare exclusion lists, sanctions, criminal records, ownership, and adverse media, in a single pass, no documents required. It’s built for the decision in front of you, so you can engage a clean party fast or flag an excluded or high-risk one before you pay or contract.

One-time scan of a name across news, profiles, legal bases and additional sources

Ongoing Monitoring

Exclusion lists change constantly, so one screen isn’t enough, and regulators expect ongoing checks. Beady rescreens every vendor, provider, and partner daily, so a new exclusion, sanction, or charge reaches you within hours rather than at the next periodic review. Screen a party once at onboarding, then keep everyone you engage under a live, always-current watch.

Ongoing Monitoring

Clear Intelligence, Built for Your Workflow

Trace every finding to its source, produce audit-ready reports, and feed screening intelligence straight into the tools your team already uses.
Social Signals Monitoring
Beady watches public social sources in real time, not just official lists. Risk signals on a vendor or provider, an accusation, an arrest, a brewing scandal, often surface on social media hours or days before they reach the news or an official record.

How early they appear varies, but social monitoring runs across every party you screen, so you get the earliest possible warning of new risk.
Social Signals Monitoring
Messenger Integration for Daily Risk Alerts
Beady connects to messaging platforms like Telegram to send daily alerts on the most important changes across your vendors, providers, and partners, with no need to log into the portal each day.

Skim a short summary on your phone, and when something needs a closer look, sign in for the full report and the evidence behind every flag.
Messenger Integration for Daily Risk Alerts
Quality of the Data Provided
Beady works only with publicly available data, refreshed daily and updated as soon as a change appears. Every finding carries a direct link to the record it came from.

And the AI never invents or embellishes. Each result can be checked against its original source, so a compliance decision rests on evidence you can verify, and defend to an auditor.
Quality of the Data Provided
Report Consolidation
Bookmark the findings that matter to build a report around a vendor, a provider, or an audit. Share it in a couple of clicks with your compliance, legal, or procurement team.

Everyone works from the same set of verified findings, so no one has to reassemble the picture by hand.
Report Consolidation

How It Works

A step-by-step look at how a vendor, provider, or partner’s name becomes a complete, verified risk profile, then an always-current watch.
Add the Party
Step 1
Add the Vendor or Provider
Enter the vendor, provider, partner, or individual you want to screen, by name, to begin. No documents required.
Screen
Step 2
Screen
Beady checks it against healthcare exclusion lists, sanctions, PEP, criminal, adverse media, ownership, and 100,000+ other sources in a single pass.
Map and Filter
Step 3
Map and Filter
The AI maps ownership, filters out noise and false matches, and surfaces only the risks that genuinely apply.
Build the Profile
Step 4
Build the Profile
Confirmed findings go into a single, audit-ready profile, ranked by severity, with each one linked to its source.
Monitor and Share
step 5
Monitor and Share
Add the party to daily monitoring, and share the report with your compliance, legal, or procurement team whenever you need it.

Ready to get started?

Live within 24 hours, not weeks.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does Beady do for a healthcare organization?
Beady screens the vendors, suppliers, providers, and partners you engage, and the people who own them, against healthcare exclusion lists, sanctions, PEP, criminal, litigation, and adverse-media sources, maps their ownership across 200M+ entities, and monitors them continuously. It’s how you know who you’re paying and partnering with, stay off excluded and sanctioned parties, and protect your reimbursement, compliance, and patients.
Yes, it can. Beady screens vendors, providers, and staff against healthcare exclusion lists, including the OIG LEIE and SAM exclusions, alongside global sanctions and watchlists, all of which are refreshed on a regular basis. This means an excluded party is caught before you engage or pay them, and every match is linked back to its source for your compliance records and audits.
Yes, it can. Beady screens practitioners, provider groups, and referral partners against exclusion lists, sanctions, criminal records, and adverse-media sources. It works as a complement to your credentialing process, catching the exclusion, sanctions, and integrity risks that truly matter. That said, it is not intended to serve as a primary-source license-verification tool.
Yes, it can. Pharmaceutical and medical device companies face intense scrutiny under anti-kickback and anti-bribery rules whenever they engage healthcare professionals, distributors, and partners. Beady screens these parties against sanctions lists, politically exposed persons databases, and corruption-related adverse media, and it maps out the connections between them. As a result, a high-risk engagement is identified before it can expose your organization to liability.
Yes. Exclusion lists are in a constant state of change, and someone who passed screening at onboarding might find themselves excluded the very next month, so recurring checks are to be expected. Beady responds to this reality by rescreening your vendors, providers, and partners each day, which means a fresh exclusion, sanction, or charge will reach you within a matter of hours. In this way, you stay compliant throughout the time between reviews.
Yes. Beady maps beneficial ownership across a database of 200M+ entities and officers, tracing through holding companies and intermediaries to the people who really own and control a vendor or provider, so an excluded or sanctioned party behind a legitimate-looking entity doesn’t go undetected.
No. The purpose of Beady is to screen the vendors, providers, and partners you engage for exclusions, sanctions, ownership, and reputational risk. It does not confirm medical licenses at the primary source, handle credentialing workflows, or take care of HIPAA and patient-data compliance. Rather than managing clinical or data compliance, it complements those systems by telling you exactly who you are dealing with.
Beady relies on more than 100,000 publicly available sources. These include healthcare exclusion lists such as the OIG LEIE and SAM, global sanctions lists from OFAC, the EU, the UN, and the UK HMT, along with databases of politically exposed persons. The platform also covers international most-wanted and criminal registries, regulatory and enforcement lists, and adverse media gathered from over 100,000 news outlets. Beyond that, it taps into corporate registries that span more than 200 million entities and officers, as well as public social sources. Each of these sources is refreshed on a regular basis.
Keyword alerts tend to bury you under a pile of mentions and leave the hard work of sorting through them entirely on your shoulders. Beady takes a different approach because it was designed specifically for risk. Its artificial intelligence first confirms that a match genuinely relates to your vendor or provider, then weighs how relevant it actually is, and in doing so eliminates up to 95 percent of the noise. Beyond that, it draws in exclusions, sanctions, ownership records, and criminal data right alongside the news, with every finding linked back to its source. What you receive is verified risk intelligence rather than an unfiltered stream of information.

Blog

Trusted by compliance and risk teams at