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Healthcare support
2 employers in the register hire in healthcare support. Some roles in this trade are restricted by law regardless of who is hiring, and those are set out below.
| Employer | Based in | Work | What we read |
|---|---|---|---|
CVS HealthNational pharmacy chain and health-services company operating about 9,000 retail locations plus distribution and call-center operations. | Woonsocket, RI | RetailHealthcare support | VerifiedSecond Chance Business Coalition member listRead September 3, 2026 |
Johns Hopkins MedicineMajor academic medical system based in Baltimore, employing tens of thousands in clinical and support roles across Maryland and the DC region. | Baltimore, MD | Healthcare supportOffice and administrative | VerifiedJails to Jobs, Second Chance Employers NetworkRead September 3, 2026 |
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What is restricted in this trade
These come from regulators and licensing boards, not from any employer on this page.
Any job at a provider that bills Medicare or Medicaid Restricted If you are on the federal exclusion list, Medicare and Medicaid will not pay for anything you do for a provider, which is why hospitals and nursing homes screen every role and not just the clinical ones. Exclusion is mandatory, and at least five years, for four kinds of conviction: a crime related to delivering care under Medicare or a state health program, any conviction for patient abuse or neglect including a misdemeanor, a felony conviction for health care fraud, theft, embezzlement, or breach of fiduciary duty, and a felony conviction for making, distributing, prescribing, or dispensing a controlled substance. A second qualifying conviction raises the minimum to ten years and a third makes it permanent. Other convictions, such as a misdemeanor drug offense or fraud against a government program that is not health care, are permissive, which means the Inspector General may exclude you, usually for three years, but is not required to. Exclusion is a payment rule rather than a hiring ban, so an employer that does not bill a federal health program can still hire you. 42 U.S.C. 1320a-7 · checked September 17, 2026
Non-clinical healthcare work while excluded (billing, IT, kitchen, HR) Exclusion is not limited to hands-on patient care, and the government says it reaches administrative, kitchen, IT, and management work at a provider that bills federal health programs. The Inspector General has said in writing that the payment ban covers services well beyond direct care, naming executive and leadership roles, human resources, billing and accounting, strategic planning, staff training, health information technology, and support work like preparing surgical trays, whether or not the work is separately billed. It applies the same way to employees, contractors, volunteers, and staffing agency placements, and it follows you if you change professions while excluded. The one opening the agency itself recognizes is work a federal health program does not pay for directly or indirectly, which is why cash-pay and non-billing employers are a real option. OIG Special Advisory Bulletin (May 8, 2013) · checked September 17, 2026
Nurse aide, CNA, or any job in a nursing home A nursing home may not employ you in any role if a state registry carries a finding of abuse, neglect, exploitation, mistreatment, or theft from a resident against your name. This is separate from a criminal record and separate from the federal exclusion list. A state survey agency enters the finding after its own investigation and a hearing, with no arrest, charge, or conviction required, and findings of abuse and misappropriation stay on the registry permanently. Only a neglect finding can be petitioned off, and no sooner than one year after it was entered. The same rule separately bars anyone a court has found guilty of those acts and anyone with matching license discipline in effect, and it reaches every individual the facility employs, not only aides. 42 CFR 483.12(a)(3) · checked September 17, 2026
Pharmacy or clinic job with access to controlled substances A DEA-registered pharmacy or practice may not employ you in any position with access to controlled substances if you have a felony conviction relating to controlled substances. The rule is written as a flat prohibition on the employer, with no lookback and no time limit, and it reaches any agent or employee who has access rather than only the licensed pharmacist. It applies the same way if your own DEA registration was denied or revoked, or if you surrendered one for cause, meaning in the face of an investigation into how you handled controlled substances. Pharmacy and clinic work that does not involve access to the controlled substance stock, and health care employers that are not DEA registrants, sit outside this rule. 21 CFR 1301.76(a) · checked September 17, 2026
Pharmacy technician Restricted Pharmacy technicians are registered or licensed state by state, and in Pennsylvania a conviction is weighed against the actual job instead of triggering an automatic no. Pennsylvania started registering pharmacy technicians on June 28, 2025 and required registration to keep working as one by June 28, 2026. State law there bars licensing boards from denying anyone for good moral character or moral turpitude and makes them run a two-stage test instead: whether your offense is on the board's published list of directly related offenses, and if it is, whether you rebut a presumption of risk with evidence of rehabilitation. The old blanket felony drug bar in the practice acts now reaches only drug trafficking offenses defined by weight, such as at least 50 pounds of marijuana or at least 100 grams of a Schedule I or II narcotic, so a smaller drug felony no longer triggers it. A crime of violence can still be licensed three years after release with evidence of rehabilitation, while a sexual offense conviction is a permanent bar for health care practitioners. Other states set their own rules and several are far stricter, so read yours. 63 Pa.C.S. § 3113 (Pennsylvania) · checked September 17, 2026
Child care worker at a licensed or subsidized program Nine felony categories close child care work at a licensed or subsidized program for good, and a felony drug conviction is the only one that stops counting after five years. This is a condition every state has to meet to keep its federal child care funding, and it reaches staff at any provider the state licenses, regulates, or registers, or that accepts child care subsidy. The permanent felony list is murder, child abuse or neglect, a crime against children including child pornography, spousal abuse, rape or sexual assault, kidnapping, arson, and physical assault or battery, and a violent misdemeanor committed as an adult against a child or any misdemeanor involving child pornography also disqualifies you, as does being on a sex offender registry or refusing or lying on the check. A felony drug offense is the only item with a time limit, five years, and the only one a state is allowed to review and clear. States may add offenses of their own and most do, and care that is neither licensed nor subsidized sits outside this federal floor. 45 CFR 98.43(c) · checked September 17, 2026
Home care aide, personal care home, or assisted living worker Restricted There is no national list of convictions that closes eldercare work, because the federal program paying for these background checks lets each state write its own list. The National Background Check Program is a grant that states opt into, and the statute says a participating state specifies the disqualifying offenses itself. It does require any participating state to run an independent appeal that weighs how much time has passed, extenuating circumstances, evidence of rehabilitation, and how relevant the record is to the job, and it allows provisional employment for up to 60 days under direct on-site supervision. Two federal bars still sit on top of the state list: exclusion from Medicare and Medicaid, and the nursing home rule on abuse findings. 42 U.S.C. 1320a-7l · checked September 17, 2026