CMS recorded 159 deactivations among Behavioral Health Providers during the week of August 10 through August 16, 2026. Hipa.ai’s name cache retrieved names for 157 records, meaning nearly all of the week’s deactivations were identifiable in the retained public-source data. California led the country with 27 deactivations, or 17% of the weekly total.
California Leads State Deactivations
New York followed California with 13 deactivations, while Michigan recorded 9. Ohio posted 8, and Washington and Virginia each had 7. Texas reported 6, followed by Arizona with 5. Florida, Tennessee, Maryland, New Mexico and Oregon each recorded 4 deactivations, while New Jersey and Missouri each had 3.
The distribution is geographically broad but concentrated in a small group of states. California and New York together accounted for 40 deactivations, while the next five states—Michigan, Ohio, Washington, Virginia and Texas—accounted for 37. That pattern is consistent with the role of large, established healthcare markets in producing more registry activity, while the presence of deactivations across many additional states reflects a national workforce rather than a single regional event.
Social Work And Addiction Lead
The leading taxonomy among named providers was Clinical Social Worker, with 23 records, or 15%. Addiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor followed with 21 records, or 13%, while RBT accounted for 19 records, or 12%. Specialist and Mental Health Counselor each had 16 records, or 10%.
Psychologists and Counselors each contributed 13 records, or 8%. Professional Counselors accounted for 8 records, or 5%, while Speech-Language Pathologists and Day Training/Habilitation Specialists each had 7 records, or 4%. The mix spans counseling, social work, substance-use treatment, behavioral analysis and related services, showing that the segment covers a multidisciplinary set of provider types rather than a single occupational group.
Individual Records Dominate
Individuals made up 149 deactivations, compared with 8 organizations. CMS reported the full total, but two records were scrubbed of identifying details; the named subset reflects what Hipa.ai’s name cache captured before CMS removed names, addresses and taxonomies from most deactivated records.
An NPI deactivation is an administrative registry status change, not by itself evidence of a license action or that a provider has stopped practicing. The weekly figures can reflect registry maintenance, retirement, practice changes, organizational consolidation or multi-NPI re-registration, making them a measure of registry churn rather than a direct count of workforce exits.
