California recorded 27 deactivations among Behavioral Health Providers during the week of Aug. 10-16, 2026, representing 17% of the national total. The records included 26 individuals and 1 organization. An NPI deactivation is an administrative change in the federal NPPES registry and does not by itself indicate a license action or confirm that a provider has stopped practicing.
Credentials and locations
RBT and Addiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor were the most frequently retired taxonomies, with 7 each. Day Training/Habilitation Specialist, Specialist and Clinical Social Worker each appeared 3 times. The credential distribution places the largest counts in behavioral technicians and substance-use counselors, while the remaining listed categories span habilitation, specialist and social-work roles.
San Diego, Oakland and Long Beach each recorded 2 deactivations. Cerritos and San Bruno followed with 1 each. The city data shows activity spread across several California locations rather than concentrated in one city; the listed leading cities together account for 8 records. Because the registry captures administrative status changes, that geographic pattern should be read as a description of NPI records, not a measure of local workforce losses.
Registry context
CMS generally removes names, addresses and taxonomies from most deactivated records. Hipa.ai retains a name cache from public CMS files captured before deactivation, allowing the weekly records to be analyzed while preserving the distinction between registry activity and confirmed changes in clinical practice.
