During the week of March 16-22, 2026, Arizona recorded 5 NPI deactivations for nurses, accounting for 7% of the national total in this category. All 5 deactivations were associated with individual healthcare providers, with no organizational NPIs for nurses deactivated in the state during this period. An NPI deactivation is an administrative status change in the federal NPPES registry and does not inherently indicate a license action or that a provider has ceased practicing. While CMS scrubs name, address, and taxonomy from most deactivated records, Hipa.ai retains a name cache from public CMS files captured before deactivation.
Credential and Geographic Distribution
Analysis of the deactivated NPIs reveals that Family Nurse Practitioners (taxonomy 363LF0000X) represented the largest share, with 2 records, or 40% of the total. The remaining deactivations each involved a single instance of other nurse taxonomies: Registered Nurse (School), Registered Nurse (Home Health), and general Registered Nurse. Geographically, the deactivations were distributed across 5 distinct cities within Arizona, including Chandler, Glendale, Scottsdale, Flagstaff, and Tucson. Each of these cities saw 1 deactivation, suggesting no particular urban or regional concentration for these administrative changes this week.
These weekly NPI deactivation figures provide insight into administrative changes within the federal NPPES registry for the nursing workforce in Arizona.
