Arizona recorded 7 physician deactivations in this week’s NPI registry update, accounting for 5% of the national total. The records include 3 individuals and 4 organizations. An NPI deactivation is an administrative change in the federal registry and does not by itself indicate that a provider has stopped practicing or faced a licensing action.
Credentials and locations
Pain Medicine (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation) was the most common retired taxonomy, appearing in 2 records. Pain Medicine (Anesthesiology), Emergency Medicine, Ophthalmology and Family Medicine each appeared in 1 record. The listed records also include Dermatology and a student-in-training taxonomy, although those were not among the leading credential categories.
Cottonwood had the largest city concentration, with 2 deactivations. Show Low, Phoenix, Tucson and San Luis each had 1. The locations span northern, central and southern Arizona, while the two Cottonwood records and the two pain-medicine records represent the clearest concentrations in this update. The distribution describes registry activity for the week, rather than the size or availability of local physician workforces.
Registry context
The Arizona update reflects a mix of individual and organizational records across several physician taxonomies. Because deactivation can be administrative and CMS removes most identifying fields from deactivated records, these entries should be read as NPI status changes, not as a direct measure of workforce exits or patient-care capacity.
