CMS NPPES recorded 163 deactivations among Behavioral Health Providers during the week of Aug. 17 through Aug. 23, 2026. Hipa.ai’s name cache retrieved names for 162 records, leaving California as the leading state with 23 deactivations, or 14% of the weekly total. The records included 136 individuals and 26 organizations.
California Leads State Activity
California was followed by Florida, with 13 deactivations, Texas with 10, and New York with 8. Colorado, Georgia, Washington, New Jersey and Illinois each recorded 6 deactivations. Indiana, Maryland, Tennessee and Arizona each had 5, while South Carolina and Michigan each had 4.
The geographic pattern is concentrated in several large and established behavioral health markets, but the distribution extends across states and territories. California’s lead was more than twice the count recorded in each of the states with six deactivations, while Florida’s activity included multiple organization records as well as individual providers. Repeated organization names in the underlying file also show that NPI activity can reflect multiple locations or billing identities within a broader operation, rather than a one-for-one count of distinct businesses.
Social Work and RBTs Top Mix
Among the named providers, the largest retired taxonomy was Clinical Social Worker, with 26 records, followed by RBT with 22. Mental Health Counselor accounted for 19, Professional Counselor for 18, and Addiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor for 11. Specialist represented 10 records, while Case Manager/Care Coordinator, Case Management Agency and Counselor each accounted for 9.
The mix spans direct counseling, social work, behavioral analysis support and care coordination. That breadth indicates that the week’s deactivations were distributed across multiple behavioral health roles rather than concentrated in one credential category. Psychologists accounted for 7 records in the listed taxonomy breakdown, placing them below the leading counseling and social-service categories.
CMS Records Require Careful Reading
Because 1 record was scrubbed, the 163 deactivations reported by CMS exceed the 162 named records retained in Hipa.ai’s public-source name cache; CMS generally removes identifying information from most deactivated records.
An NPI deactivation is an administrative registry change, not by itself evidence of a license action, malpractice or a provider leaving practice. The weekly count can include routine registry maintenance, workforce churn, retirement, organizational consolidation and providers who re-register under a new NPI. It therefore describes changes to federal records, not a definitive tally of behavioral health closures or departures.
