Massachusetts recorded 6 physician deactivations in the NPI registry during the week of August 31 through September 6, 2026, accounting for 3% of the national total. The records include 5 individuals and 1 organization. The organization record is for Brigham and Womens Physicians Organization Inc. in Boston. NPI deactivation is an administrative registry change and does not by itself establish that a provider has stopped practicing or that a license action occurred.
Credentials
The retired credential and taxonomy records were evenly distributed across five areas: Orthopaedic Surgery, Anesthesiology, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics and Gastroenterology each appeared once, or 17% of the state total. The mix spans surgical, medical, pediatric and specialty practice rather than clustering in one credential category. One additional individual record was classified as Specialist, while the organization record carried Orthopaedic Surgery taxonomy information.
Locations
Boston had 3 deactivations, the largest city total. Fall River, Jamaica Plain and Peabody each had 1 record. Boston therefore accounted for half of the Massachusetts records in this update, while the remaining entries were distributed across three other listed communities. The geographic pattern shows a Boston concentration in this week’s snapshot but does not, on its own, establish a broader workforce trend or explain why the records were deactivated.
These records provide a limited administrative view of Massachusetts physician NPI status changes for the week and should not be read as a direct measure of practicing workforce levels.
