ICE Is Accessing Medicaid Enrollee Data — With Limitations in Some States

Federal health officials agreed last spring to give immigration enforcement officials access to a Medicaid database that includes enrollees’ addresses and citizenship status. Twenty-two states sued to block the agreement. In December, a judge limited what the government can share about enrollees in those states. Deportation officials have access to personal Medicaid information about all enrollees in the remaining 28 states.