CMS recorded 50 nurse-segment deactivations in the NPI registry during the week of Sept. 14–20, 2026. Hipa.ai’s name cache retained names for 49 records, or 98%, and New York led the state totals with 8 deactivations. The weekly count includes both individual and organizational records; the data classifies 45 as individuals and 4 as organizations.
New York Leads State Counts
Ohio followed New York with 6 deactivations, while Arizona had 4. Oregon and Florida each recorded 3. Texas, Washington, North Carolina, Louisiana and Nebraska each had 2; the other states in the supplied ranking had 1 apiece. The leading states together account for a substantial share of the listed activity, with New York and Ohio at the top, but the spread across states indicates that the week’s records were not confined to one region.
These are counts of registry status changes, not measures of nurse employment, patient access or local workforce shortages. State totals also do not explain why records were deactivated. A concentration in a state can reflect its provider population as well as routine changes in how practitioners and organizations maintain their NPI records. The list identifies where records were associated geographically, not whether clinical services ended there.
Registered Nurses Top Taxonomies
Among the named records, Registered Nurse was the most common taxonomy, with 11 records, or 22% of the total. Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist and Licensed Practical Nurse each appeared 6 times. Family Nurse Practitioner and Nurse Practitioner each had 5 records. Psychiatric and mental health classifications also appeared in the mix: Psychiatric/Mental Health Registered Nurse and Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner each accounted for 3.
The taxonomy distribution spans general nursing, practical nursing, anesthesia and advanced practice. It describes the classifications attached to deactivated records, not the full credentials held by each person or the number of practitioners currently working in those fields. Taxonomy entries can also differ from the credential displayed in a provider’s name or professional title. The data therefore offers a view of the administrative mix in this week’s file, rather than a direct count of workforce exits by specialty.
Deactivation Is Administrative
CMS’s deactivation total is one greater than the number of names Hipa.ai could retrieve: CMS may remove names, addresses and taxonomy from deactivated records, so the named subset reflects what Hipa.ai’s public-source cache captured before that information was scrubbed. An NPI deactivation alone does not establish that a provider stopped practicing or faced a licensing or malpractice action. Registry records change as providers retire, reorganize practices, consolidate entities or obtain another NPI. The weekly snapshot is best understood as a measure of registry maintenance and workforce-record churn, not a tally of nurses leaving care delivery.
