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

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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.

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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

[Pachamama]

1. Doesn't this also violate HIPAA laws?

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

[SickOfTheOnePct]

2. Sharing with law enforcement agencies...

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

[AllaN01Bear]

3. who sais rs obey laws anyway? laws and rules are for little people

[choie]

6. I assist older adults in applying for Medicaid

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]

7. Limited exemption for law enforcement agencies

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

[Bayard]

4. This information will show if someone is a criminal?

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.

[ananda]

5. Boy, he's really itching to make them labor slaves.

Grrr