California recorded 21 physician NPI deactivations during the week of August 10 through August 16, representing 10% of the national total reported for the period. The records included 18 individuals and 3 organizations. An NPI deactivation is an administrative change in the federal NPPES registry and does not by itself establish that a physician has stopped practicing or that a license action occurred.
Credentials
Family Medicine was the most common retired taxonomy, with 4 deactivations, followed by Internal Medicine with 3. Anesthesiology, Pediatrics and Plastic Surgery each accounted for 2. The remaining records were distributed across other physician specialties. This mix does not show a single specialty dominating the week, although primary care categories were among the most frequently listed.
City Distribution
Sacramento had the highest city count, with 2 deactivations. Chino, Pomona, Fremont and San Francisco each had 1. The city data therefore shows limited geographic concentration: Sacramento was the only listed location with more than 1 record, while the other deactivations were spread across California communities. The records also include organizations in Los Alamitos, Live Oak and Modesto, separate from the individual physician counts.
The weekly registry data describes administrative NPI status changes and should be read as a workforce-record signal rather than a direct measure of current clinical availability.
