Tennessee recorded 6 physician deactivations in the NPI registry during the week of Aug. 10-16, representing 3% of the national total. The records included 5 individuals and 1 organization. All six deactivations were dated Aug. 13. An NPI deactivation is an administrative change in the federal registry and does not, by itself, establish that a clinician has stopped practicing or that a license action occurred.
Credentials and Locations
The retired individual records were spread across five taxonomies: Pediatrics, Diagnostic Radiology, Ophthalmology, General Practice and Anesthesiology. Each category appeared once, or 17% of the state total. No single physician specialty dominated the week’s deactivations, so the credential distribution does not point to a concentrated change in one area of the medical workforce.
Nashville had 3 deactivations, followed by Memphis with 2 and Franklin with 1. The city pattern places half of the state’s activity in Nashville, while Memphis accounts for two records and Franklin for one. Because the counts are small and represent registry status changes rather than verified departures from care, the geographic distribution should be read as a description of NPI activity, not a measure of local physician availability.
Overall, Tennessee’s weekly physician deactivations were limited in number, divided between individual and organizational records, and dispersed across five specialties and three cities.
