Judge HHS is prohibited from sharing Medicaid data with immigration officials

The Federal Judge has ordered the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services to stop providing access to the personal registered Medicaid data, including their home addresses, to immigration officials.

Provincial judge, Vince Chapria, who is appointed Obama, gave a preliminary thing Ministry of Internal Security From using Medicaid data obtained from 20 states, it filed a lawsuit to stop sharing data.

This, which was presented on Tuesday, prevents HHS from sharing data on Medicaid registrants in these cases with the application of immigration and customs for the purpose of targeting migrants to deport.

“The use of CMS data to enforce immigration threatens to disable the medicaid operation significantly – a program that Congress considered it very important to provide health coverage for the most vulnerable population in the country,” Chapria wrote.

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The judge wrote that although there is nothing “categorically illegal” about collecting data from other agencies from other agencies for immigration enforcement purposes, Ice had a policy against the use of medicaid data for this reason for 12 years.

Medicare and Medicaid service centers have also maintained a policy of using personal information for patients only to run their healthcare programs.

“Given these policies, and given that the various players in the Medicaid system have relied on them, the agencies had to carry out the logical decision -making process before changing them,” Xpiabia wrote, adding: “The record in this case indicates strongly the lack of such an operation.”

Chapria said that the initial gossip will remain in effect until the HHS “pre -decision making” for its new policy of sharing data with immigration officials or even concludes the litigation.

The disclosure of Medicaid data is part of the broader Trump administration’s effort to give DHS more data to help determine migrants and implement the president Collective deportation plan. In May, a federal judge refused to prevent the internal revenue department from sharing the tax data of immigrants with Ice officials.

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“The Trump administration’s step to use medicaid data in order to enforce the enforcement of immigration has raised the protection of a long -term policy without notice or consideration of the consequences,” California Public Prosecutor Rob Punta said in a statement. “With the president continuing to overcome his authority in an inhuman crusade against immigrants, this is a clear reminder that he is still binding on the law.”

HHS for the first time submitted personal information to millions of Madikid registered in June, which paid a lawsuit from 20 states to prevent new policy.

In July, Medicare and Medicaid services centers concluded a new agreement that allowed the Ministry of National Security to receive daily personal data for seven million Medicaid registrar, including social security numbers and home address.

No agreement was announced publicly. HHS insisted that its agreement with the Ministry of National Security is legal.

Medicaid officials have tried to prevent data transfer, but they were canceled by senior advisers to the Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services Robert F. Kennedy Junior.

Immigrants – legal and non -legal – are not allowed to register in the Medicaid program, which provides approximately free coverage of health services. However, under Federal Law, all states of Medicaid must provide emergency, which is a temporary coverage that covers only life rescue services in the emergency rooms of anyone, including people who are not American citizens.

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“Protecting people’s private information for people is very important,” said Nick Brown’s public prosecutor Nick Brown in a statement. “Everyone should be able to seek medical care without fear of what the federal government may do with this information.”

share Madikad personalized personal data Immigration advocates have warned that it may cause anxiety among people who seek an emergency medical assistance for themselves or for their children.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.