20 states sue after the Trump administration releases private Medicaid data to deportation officials
WASHINGTON (AP) – Trump administration violated the Federal Laws of Privacy when the Medicaid data given to millions of registration officials to Medicaid was transferred last month, California Chief Public Prosecutor Rob Bonda claimed on Tuesday and have lawyers of 19 states. sued throughout the movement.
Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy JR. First associated press Reported last month. All of these states allow non -US citizens to register for Medicaid programs that pay their expenses using only state taxpayers.
The unusual data sharing of private health information, including addresses, names, social security numbers, immigration status and demand data for registered persons in these states, was published to the deportation authorities as accelerating the execution efforts throughout the country. Experts, data, the Ministry of Interior Security to find immigrants in the mass deportation campaign to help to find immigrants, he said.
Bonda said that the data statement of the Trump administration has violated the laws of protection of protection of protection of health in health insurance and accountability (HIPAA).
Bonda, at a press conference on Tuesday, said at a press conference, which clearly shows that personal health data is confidential and that it can only be shared under certain narrow conditions that benefit the public’s health or Medicaid program, ”he said.
The Trump administration tried to armed more data deported authorities about immigrants. In May, for example, A federal judge refused to block Internal income service From sharing the tax data of immigrants with migration and customs execution to help them find and detain people living in the USA without legal status.
The Movement of the Federal Government to reveal his data on immigrant Medicaid people, Medicare and Medicaid Services Centers, announced that federal funds would review some state rolls to ensure that they are not used to pay for the scope of “satisfactory immigration status”.
According to the 6 June note signed by Medicaid Deputy Director Sara Vitolo obtained by CMS, California, Washington and Illinois as part of the examination, the states of the USA, the states registered in the Medicaid program, asked them to share details about non -US citizens. The note was written by several CMS officials under the supervision of Vitolo according to the sources familiar to the process.
CMS officials, according to Note, said that it would violate Federal laws, including the Social Security Law and the 1974 Privacy Law, and tried to fight the request for data sharing from Internal Security.
The legal arguments mentioned in the Memoda were not convincing to their appointed Trump at HHS, who controls the Medicaid Agency.
According to E -Post exchanges obtained by the EP, four days after the submission of the grade, HHS officials directed the transfer of “data to DHS today up to 5:30 ET today.
Agency spokesman Andrew Nixon said in a statement that HHS is aggressively broken to states that can abuse Federal Medicaid funds, ”he said. The agency did not provide details about DHS’s role in effort. Nixon also advocated the legality of releasing the data to DHS.
“HHS has acted in accordance with all the laws in force in order to ensure that the benefits of Medicaid are reserved for those who are entitled to legally receiving the benefits of the HHS.
Duzin Democratic Congress Member in both the Assembly and the Senate – sent a letter To the relevant agencies, the end of the data sharing and internal security to destroy the information so far. –
Olga R. Rodriguez, the Associated Press writer in San Francisco, contributed.
