Arizona recorded **5 behavioral health provider** NPI deactivations in the federal NPPES registry during the week of July 6-12, 2026. This total represented **3% of the national total** for behavioral health deactivations in the period. The deactivations in Arizona were split between **2 individual providers** and **3 organizations**.
Deactivation Trends
Among the deactivated NPIs, the Community/Behavioral Health Agency taxonomy was most prevalent, accounting for **3 deactivations**, or **60% of the total**. Clinical Social Worker and BCBA each saw **1 deactivation**, representing **20%** of the total. Geographically, Laveen recorded **3 deactivations**, while Tucson had **2**. The concentration of deactivations in Laveen, particularly among organizational entities, suggests a localized administrative event affecting specific entities, as one organization accounted for all three deactivations in that city, holding multiple NPIs with different taxonomies.
Understanding NPI Deactivations
It is important to note that NPI deactivations are administrative status changes within the federal NPPES registry. This status change does not inherently indicate a license action against a provider or that a provider has ceased practicing. Hipa.ai retains a name cache from public CMS files captured prior to deactivation, allowing for continued tracking of these records despite CMS scrubbing name and address information from most deactivated NPIs.
