Maryland recorded 6 physician deactivations in the NPI registry during the week of Aug. 17-23, 2026, accounting for 4% of the national total. All 6 were individuals; the update listed 0 organizations. The records were deactivated on Aug. 20 or Aug. 22.
Credentials and Locations
Five retired taxonomy categories each appeared once: Forensic Psychiatry, Diagnostic Radiology, Addiction Medicine (Psychiatry & Neurology), Pediatrics, and Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism. The sixth record was classified under Clinical Molecular Genetics. The credential mix was therefore distributed across several specialties rather than concentrated in one physician field.
Silver Spring was the most represented city, with 2 deactivations. Cumberland, Baltimore, Bethesda and Frederick each accounted for 1 record. The geographic distribution shows a limited concentration in Silver Spring, while the remaining records were spread across four other Maryland cities. With the exception of that city-level grouping, the weekly activity does not point to a broad concentration in a single location or specialty.
Registry Context
An NPI deactivation is an administrative status change in the federal NPPES registry and does not by itself establish that a physician has stopped practicing or faced a license action. CMS removes names, addresses and taxonomy information from most deactivated records; Hipa.ai retains a name cache from public CMS files captured before deactivation. This update describes registry activity, not confirmed changes in Maryland’s active clinical workforce.
