For the week of July 20-26, 2026, the federal NPPES registry recorded 5 physician NPI deactivations in Massachusetts. This figure represents 3% of the national total for physicians during this period. All 5 deactivations were associated with individual practitioners, indicating no organizational NPIs underwent this administrative status change in the state this week. An NPI deactivation is an administrative status change and does not by itself indicate a license action or that a provider has stopped practicing.
Specialty and Geographic Trends
The deactivated NPIs spanned a variety of medical specialties, with Emergency Medicine, Plastic Surgery, Pediatrics, Gastroenterology, and Otolaryngology each recording one deactivation. This distribution suggests no single specialty experienced a disproportionate number of administrative updates this week. From a geographic perspective, Peabody registered two deactivations. The cities of Lawrence, Wellesley, and Wellesley Hills each had one NPI deactivation. This pattern does not suggest a particular concentration of NPI deactivations in any specific urban or suburban area within Massachusetts, but rather a dispersed set of administrative updates across the state.
Hipa.ai retains a name cache from public CMS files captured before deactivation, providing a historical record of these NPIs, even as CMS scrubs name and address information from most deactivated records.
