Texas recorded 6 physician deactivations in the NPI registry during the week of Aug. 17-23, representing 4% of the national total. All six records were for individuals, while 0 organizations were listed. The registry data identifies deactivations as administrative status changes and does not by itself establish whether a clinician has stopped practicing or faced a licensing action.
Credentials
Family Medicine was the leading retired taxonomy, with 3 records, or 50% of the Texas total. Psychiatry, Internal Medicine and Obstetrics & Gynecology each accounted for 1 record, or 17%. The mix spans primary care, behavioral health and other medical specialties, with Family Medicine the only category appearing more than once. The concentration is limited, and the records do not establish a broader shift in the state’s physician workforce.
Geographic Spread
The listed cities were Dallas, San Antonio, El Paso, Houston and Missouri City, each with 1 deactivation. New Braunfels also appeared among the individual records, bringing the locations represented in the provider data across multiple Texas communities. No city accounted for more than 1 record, so the week’s activity was distributed rather than concentrated in one metropolitan area. Geographic distribution in the registry describes the locations attached to deactivated NPIs and should not be read as a measure of local physician supply or access.
Texas’s weekly physician deactivations involved individual NPIs across several specialties and cities, with no organizations recorded.
