Florida recorded 15 deactivations among Behavioral Health Providers during the week of Aug. 24-30, accounting for 7% of the national total. The update included 13 individuals and 2 organizations. An NPI deactivation is an administrative change in the federal registry and does not by itself establish that a provider has stopped practicing or faced a licensing action.
Credentials and Cities
Specialist was the most frequently listed taxonomy, with 3 records. RBT, Speech-Language Pathologist, Mental Health Counselor and Clinical Social Worker each appeared in 2 records. The mix spans behavioral, developmental, counseling and social-work roles rather than concentrating in one credential category. Coral Springs led the city breakdown with 2 deactivations. Cantonment, Naples, Jacksonville and Oviedo each had 1. The listed cities therefore show limited concentration, with only Coral Springs appearing more than once in the summary.
Registry Context
The two organizations were listed in Orlando and St. Augustine, while the individual records were distributed across the cities reported in the update, including Coral Springs, Cantonment, Naples, Jacksonville and Oviedo. The data describes registry status changes, not confirmed changes in workforce availability, service capacity or patient access. CMS generally removes names, addresses and taxonomy information from deactivated records; Hipa.ai retains a name cache from public CMS files captured before deactivation. Florida’s weekly update should therefore be read as an administrative snapshot of NPI records rather than a direct count of practicing behavioral health providers.
