New York recorded 17 physician deactivations in the NPI registry during the week of Aug. 10–16, accounting for 8% of the national total. The records included 16 individuals and one organization, indicating that nearly all listed changes involved individual physician NPIs rather than organizational records.
Credentials
Internal Medicine and Psychiatry were the most frequently listed retired taxonomy categories, with four records each, or 24% apiece of New York’s total. Dermatology, Ophthalmology and Neurology each appeared once, representing 6% of the state’s deactivations. The leading categories therefore accounted for eight records combined, while the remaining deactivations were distributed across other physician specialties, including General Practice, Pediatrics, Gastroenterology and Public Health & General Preventive Medicine.
City Distribution
New York had the most city-level activity, with three deactivations. Albany and Poughkeepsie followed with two each, while North Tonawanda and Castle Point each had one. The listed locations show some concentration in New York City and selected upstate and Hudson Valley communities, but the records are spread across multiple areas rather than centered in one city. City and taxonomy patterns describe the distribution of registry changes, not the availability of clinical services.
An NPI deactivation is an administrative registry change and does not by itself establish that a physician has stopped practicing or faced a licensing action.
