Massachusetts recorded 10 physician NPI deactivations between March 9 and March 15, 2026. This represents 6% of the national total for physicians during the period. All 10 deactivations were for individual providers, with no organizational NPIs deactivated in the state this week.
Geographic and Specialty Focus
The most frequent taxonomy code among the deactivated NPIs was 207R00000X, accounting for 4 deactivations, or 40% of the total. Other specialties, including 207Q00000X, 208200000X, 207V00000X, and 207U00000X, each saw 1 deactivation. Geographically, Boston accounted for 5 deactivations, representing half of the state's total for the week. Other cities with single deactivations included West Springfield, Holyoke, Milton, Norwood, and Beverly.
NPI Deactivation Context
An NPI deactivation is an administrative status change within the federal NPPES registry. It does not inherently indicate a license action against a provider or that a provider has ceased practicing. Hipa.ai retains a name cache from public CMS files captured before deactivation, as CMS typically scrubs name and address information from deactivated records.
