California recorded 17 physician deactivations in the NPI registry during the week of Aug. 3-9, 2026, representing 12% of the national total. The records covered 12 individuals and 5 organizations, so individual providers accounted for most of the state’s activity.
Credentials and Locations
Psychiatry was the most frequently retired taxonomy, with 4 records and 24% of California’s total. Internal Medicine, Family Medicine and Surgery each had 2 records, or 12%. Thoracic Surgery had 1 record, or 6%. The leading city was Berkeley, with 2 deactivations. Laguna Beach, Beverly Hills, Pleasanton and Murrieta each had 1.
Registry Pattern
The credential distribution was broad, although psychiatry was the only taxonomy appearing more than twice. Berkeley was the only city with multiple records among the leading locations. The city and credential counts therefore show limited concentration, with no single location or specialty accounting for most deactivations. Because NPI deactivation is an administrative registry status, the data does not establish whether affected providers changed practice, relocated or otherwise stopped delivering care.
These records describe weekly changes in the federal NPI registry and should be interpreted as administrative workforce data rather than a direct measure of active clinical capacity.
