Texas saw 13 physician NPI deactivations between May 18 and May 24, 2026, representing 6% of the national total for the week. This total included 9 individual providers and 4 organizations.
Specialty and Geographic Trends
The deactivations spanned various medical specialties. Electrodiagnostic Medicine and Obstetrics & Gynecology each accounted for 2 deactivations, making up 15% of the state's total for each specialty. Other specialties, including Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Internal Medicine), Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, and Cardiovascular Disease, each saw 1 deactivation, representing 8% of the total each. Geographically, Dallas, San Antonio, and Austin each recorded 2 deactivations. Other cities with 1 deactivation included Burleson and Lufkin, indicating deactivations across both major metropolitan and smaller urban areas in Texas.
Understanding Deactivations
An NPI deactivation is an administrative status change in the federal NPPES registry. It does not by itself indicate a license action or that a provider has stopped practicing. Hipa.ai retains a name cache from public CMS files captured before deactivation, as CMS scrubs name and address from most deactivated records.
