Massachusetts recorded 9 NPI deactivations for behavioral health providers during the week of March 23-29, 2026. This total represents 5% of all behavioral health NPI deactivations nationally for the period. The deactivations in Massachusetts primarily involved individual practitioners, with 8 individual NPIs deactivated, alongside 1 organizational NPI.
Credential Breakdown
Among the individual providers, Clinical Social Workers represented the largest group of deactivations, with 5 NPIs, accounting for 56% of the state's total behavioral health deactivations this week. Mental Health Counselors followed, with 3 NPIs deactivated, making up 33% of the total. Additionally, 1 Speech-Language Pathologist NPI was deactivated. This distribution highlights specific professional categories within the behavioral health sector experiencing administrative status changes in the state.
Geographic Distribution
The NPI deactivations were geographically dispersed across Massachusetts. No single city showed a concentration of deactivations, with locations such as Woburn, Chelmsford, Cambridge, Beverly, and Attleboro each reporting 1 deactivation. This broad distribution suggests that the administrative status changes were not localized to any particular urban or regional center within the state.
NPI deactivations are administrative updates in the federal NPPES registry and do not inherently indicate a license action or that a provider has ceased practice.
