Maryland recorded 8 behavioral health provider deactivations in the week of Sept. 21–27, accounting for 4% of the national total. All were individual providers; no organizations were deactivated. 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 locations
Registered behavior technicians were the largest credential group, with 4 deactivations. Specialists accounted for 2, while mental health counselors and case managers or care coordinators each accounted for one. The credential mix is therefore concentrated in RBT records, but the weekly count is small and does not show how many providers in each field remain active or available to patients.
Rockville had 2 deactivations, the most of any listed city. Baltimore, Easton, Columbia and Beltsville each had one. The locations show records spread across several Maryland cities, with a limited concentration in Rockville; they do not establish a broader geographic pattern. The city breakdown lists five of the locations represented in the state’s total, while the remaining records are associated with other cities.
Registry context
The NPPES registry tracks provider identifiers, not current employment or service capacity. CMS removes names, addresses and taxonomies from most deactivated records; Hipa.ai retains name information from public CMS files captured before deactivation. These figures describe registry status changes for the week, rather than a confirmed change in Maryland’s practicing behavioral health workforce.
