CMS NPPES recorded 54 deactivations in the Nurses segment during the week of Aug. 3–9, 2026. Hipa.ai’s name cache captured 53 named records, or 98% of the total. New York led the country with 9 deactivations, representing 17% of the weekly count. The registry classified 51 individuals and 2 organizations in the total.
New York Leads State Activity
Texas, California and Ohio each recorded 5 deactivations, or 9% apiece. Florida followed with 4, while Colorado recorded 3. Missouri, Washington, Pennsylvania and Michigan each posted 2 deactivations. The remaining reported states—Alabama, Connecticut, Hawaii, Alaska and New Mexico—each had 1 deactivation.
New York’s lead was broad rather than confined to one city, with records from Albany, Saratoga Springs, Astoria, Bayport, Flushing, Endicott and Brooklyn; Brooklyn accounted for 2 deactivations. Texas also appeared across several locations, including Harlingen, Austin, Houston and Crosbyton. The spread across states and cities suggests a distributed registry-maintenance pattern, with the largest totals concentrated in a handful of states rather than dominated by one local market.
Registered Nurses Form Largest Group
Registered Nurse was the leading retired taxonomy among named providers, with 18 deactivations, or 34%. Family Nurse Practitioner and Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist each accounted for 5 deactivations, or 9%. Licensed Practical Nurse followed with 4, or 8%.
The remaining leading codes were more fragmented. Adult Health Nurse Practitioner, Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, Psychiatric/Mental Health Registered Nurse, Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner, Adult Psychiatric/Mental Health Registered Nurse and School Registered Nurse each recorded 2 deactivations, or 4%. The mix spans bedside nursing, advanced practice, anesthesia, mental health and school-based care, indicating that the week’s activity was not limited to one credential pathway.
Registry Changes Need Careful Reading
Because CMS scrubbed names, addresses and taxonomies from most deactivated records, the CMS total is 54 deactivations while Hipa.ai’s cache contains 53 named providers; the one-record difference reflects information removed before the name was captured. An NPI deactivation is an administrative registry action, not by itself evidence of a license action or that a provider stopped practicing. Records can be retired during registry maintenance, retirement, organizational changes or multi-NPI re-registration, so the weekly count is best read as a measure of registry churn rather than a direct count of workforce exits.
