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swag

(26,560 posts)
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 12:33 PM Thursday

Trump administration hands over nation's Medicaid enrollee data, including addresses, to ICE

Source: Associated Press

By KIMBERLY KINDY and AMANDA SEITZ
Updated 9:19 AM PDT, July 17, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will be given access to the personal data of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home addresses and ethnicities, to track down immigrants who may not be living legally in the United States, according to an agreement obtained by The Associated Press.

The information will give ICE officials the ability to find “the location of aliens” across the country, says the agreement signed Monday between the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Department of Homeland Security. The agreement has not been announced publicly.

. . .

Lawmakers and some CMS officials have challenged the legality of deportation officials’ access to some states’ Medicaid enrollee data. It’s a move, first reported by the AP last month, that Health and Human Services officials said was aimed at rooting out people enrolled in the program improperly.

But the latest data-sharing agreement makes clear what ICE officials intend to do with the health data.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/immigration-medicaid-trump-ice-ab9c2267ce596089410387bfcb40eeb7

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Trump administration hands over nation's Medicaid enrollee data, including addresses, to ICE (Original Post) swag Thursday OP
Doesn't this also violate HIPAA laws? Pachamama Thursday #1
Sharing with law enforcement agencies... SickOfTheOnePct Thursday #2
who sais rs obey laws anyway? laws and rules are for little people AllaN01Bear Thursday #3
I assist older adults in applying for Medicaid choie Thursday #6
Limited exemption for law enforcement agencies SickOfTheOnePct Thursday #7
This information will show if someone is a criminal? Bayard Thursday #4
Boy, he's really itching to make them labor slaves. ananda Thursday #5

Pachamama

(17,379 posts)
1. Doesn't this also violate HIPAA laws?
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 12:35 PM
Thursday

This is literally terrifying to think what kind of databases they are building and what they will do with them

SickOfTheOnePct

(8,005 posts)
2. Sharing with law enforcement agencies...
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 12:58 PM
Thursday

...is permitted under some circumstances - don't know if these circumstances qualify or not.

choie

(5,846 posts)
6. I assist older adults in applying for Medicaid
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 04:54 PM
Thursday

and in order for me to submit the application, the client must sign a HIPAA form authorizing me to do so. So, yeah...I'm pretty sure it does violate the HIPAA laws, unless the Medicaid recipient signed one allowing the specific government entity to have their Medicaid information.

SickOfTheOnePct

(8,005 posts)
7. Limited exemption for law enforcement agencies
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 05:22 PM
Thursday

Don't know if this will fall under the exemptions, but I'm sure a lawsuit will determine it.

Bayard

(26,042 posts)
4. This information will show if someone is a criminal?
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 02:22 PM
Thursday

Isn't that supposed to be the only people they're snatching up?

They can also dig into Medicare. I don't see how this is legal at all. Its not like ICE is hiring the best of the best.

Day by day, they're shutting down more of our rights, and the worst is coming.

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