CMS NPPES recorded 66 deactivations in the Nurses segment during the week of Aug. 24-30, 2026. Hipa.ai’s name cache retained names for 65 of those records, while California led the states with 7 deactivations. The file includes 63 individual providers and two organizations, showing that the week’s activity was overwhelmingly tied to individual nurse records.
CMS reports the full count of 66 deactivations, but one record had already been scrubbed of identifying information; the 65 named records are the subset captured by Hipa.ai’s public-source name cache before CMS removed the details.
California Leads a Broad Distribution
California’s seven deactivations placed it ahead of New York, which recorded 6 deactivations. Texas and Arizona followed with five each, while Ohio posted four. Louisiana had three, and Minnesota, Florida, Oregon, New Jersey, Massachusetts, South Carolina, Indiana, Washington and North Carolina each recorded two.
The distribution does not point to a single regional cluster. The leading states span the West, Northeast, South and Midwest, and the counts remain modest even in the states at the top. California’s lead therefore reflects a limited weekly concentration rather than a nationwide pattern centered in one market. The named records also extend across urban and smaller communities, including San Francisco, Minneapolis, Fort Worth, Tulsa and Apalachicola.
Registered Nurses Form the Largest Group
Registered Nurse was the leading taxonomy among named providers, with 16 records, or 25% of the named subset. Nurse Practitioner and Family Nurse Practitioner each accounted for eight records, or 12%. Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist followed with seven, or 11%, while Licensed Practical Nurse represented six, or 9%.
The remaining leading categories were more specialized. Adult Health Nurse Practitioner, Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and School Registered Nurse each had three records, or 5%. Pediatric Nurse Practitioner had two, or 3%, and Gerontology Nurse Practitioner had one, or 2%. The mix spans general nursing, advanced practice, anesthesia, school health and behavioral health, suggesting that the week’s deactivations were distributed across multiple nursing functions rather than concentrated in a single credential group.
Registry Status Requires Context
An NPI deactivation is an administrative change in the federal registry, not by itself evidence of a license action, malpractice or a provider leaving practice. Records can be retired during registry maintenance, after retirement or organizational changes, or when a professional obtains a new NPI. The weekly file thus captures administrative churn alongside possible workforce movement, including multi-NPI re-registrations, rather than providing a direct count of nurses exiting care.
