Oregon recorded 5 physician deactivations in the NPI registry during the week of August 10 through August 16, accounting for 2% of the national total. The records include 4 individuals and 1 organization. The organization entry represents the only nonindividual deactivation in the state’s weekly physician data.
Credentials
The credential breakdown was evenly distributed. Anesthesiology, Family Medicine, Orthopaedic Surgery, Sleep Medicine (Internal Medicine) and Neurological Surgery each accounted for 1 deactivation. Each specialty represented 20% of Oregon’s weekly physician deactivations. No credential category appeared more than once, so the data do not show a concentration in a particular physician specialty.
Geographic Pattern
The listed cities were Tigard, Eugene, Lebanon, Portland and Salem, with 1 deactivation in each city. The distribution spans several Oregon communities rather than clustering in one location. Portland and Tigard are both represented, while Eugene, Lebanon and Salem also appear in the weekly records. With one record per city and one record per specialty, the city and credential data indicate a broadly dispersed set of registry changes rather than a dominant local or clinical grouping.
NPI deactivation is an administrative status change in the federal registry and does not by itself establish that a provider has stopped practicing or faced a license action.
