Washington recorded 5 behavioral health provider NPI deactivations this week, accounting for 3% of the national total. All 5 deactivations were for individual providers, with no organizational NPIs deactivated. An NPI deactivation is an administrative status change in the federal NPPES registry and does not by itself indicate a license action or that a provider has stopped practicing.
Credential and Geographic Trends
The deactivations primarily involved 'Mental Health Counselor' and 'Counselor' taxonomies, each accounting for 2 deactivations, or 40% of the total. The remaining 1 deactivation, representing 20%, was for a 'Behavior Technician'. These deactivations were distributed across 5 different cities within Washington: Oak Harbor, Everett, Yakima, Lakewood, and Puyallup. Each of these cities recorded 1 deactivation, indicating a dispersed pattern rather than a concentration in a single metropolitan area or specific credential type. This broad distribution suggests that the deactivations were not localized to a particular region or a narrow set of professional roles within the state's behavioral health sector this week.
NPI deactivations are administrative status changes in the federal NPPES registry, meaning CMS scrubs name, address, and taxonomy from most deactivated records, though Hipa.ai retains a name cache from public CMS files captured before deactivation.
