Judge orders RFK Jr.'s health department to stop sharing Medicaid data with deportation officials [View all]
Source: AP
Updated 3:27 PM EDT, August 14, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal judge ordered the nation's health department to stop giving deportation officials access to the personal information -- including home addresses -- of all 79 million Medicaid enrollees.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services first handed over the personal data on millions of Medicaid enrollees in a handful of states in June. After an Associated Press report identified the new policy, 20 states filed a lawsuit to stop its implementation.
In July, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services entered into a new agreement that gave the Department of Homeland Security daily access to view the personal data -- including Social Security numbers and home address -- of all the nation's 79 million Medicaid enrollees. Neither agreement was announced publicly.
The extraordinary disclosure of such personal health data to deportation officials in the Trump administration's far-reaching immigration crackdown immediately prompted the lawsuit over privacy concerns.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-medicaid-data-deportation-immigrants-trump-9a6ac84c6c23a608cfc5d343f6433c7f
Link to RULING (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.452203/gov.uscourts.cand.452203.98.0_1.pdf
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