Washington (AP). The Trump administration violated the federal privacy laws when it passed Medicaid last month about millions of students to deportation officials, Tuesday California Attorney General Rob Bonta said he and 19 other state lawyers had filed a lawsuit.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior Advisers ordered the release of a data set containing private information about people living in California, Illinois, Washington, Washington and Washington, to the Homeland Security Department last month, the Associated Press first announced last month. All these countries allow non -US citizens to join Medicaid programs, which pay for their expenses, using only state taxpayers’ dollars.
Unusual Data Sharing Private Information on Health Information, including addresses, names, social security numbers, immigration status and claims on student participants in the states, have been disclosed to deportation officials as they accelerated execution efforts throughout the country. Data could be used to help the Homeland Security Department find migrants in a mass deportation campaign, experts said.
Bonta said the authorization of Trump’s administration’s data violates federal health health laws, including the Law on Health Insurance Pums and Accountability (HIPAA).
“It is about seven decades of federal law policies and practice, which has made it possible to understand that personal health care is confidential and can only be distributed under certain narrow circumstances that are beneficial to public health or Medicaid,” said Bonta on Tuesday during a press conference.
Trump’s administration sought to organize deportation officers with more data on immigrants. For example, in May, a federal judge refused to prevent the Internal Income Service to share immigrant tax data with immigration and customs execution to help agents find and detain people without legal status in the US, USA
The transition to the Federal Government’s data on immigrants’ Medicaid Encllees was implemented in May when Medicare and Medicaid Services centers have announced that it will review some state lists to ensure that the federal funds were not used to pay for covering people with “unsatisfactory immigration status”.
Based on June 6th. APS, CMS asked California, Washington and Illinois to share information about non -US citizens who joined their state’s Medicaid program. According to the sources familiar with the process, the memorandum was written by several cms officials led by Vitol.
CMS officials tried to fight data sharing data on the homeland security request, saying that it would do so would violate federal laws, including the 1974 Act. The Social Security Act and the Law on Privacy, according to a memorandum.
Legal arguments set out in the memorandum were not convincing to the HHS of Trump, which oversees the Medicaid agency.
Four days after the removal of the memories, June 10, HHS officials ordered “Data to DHS Today” 5:30 ET Today “according to the AP e -mail exchange.
HHS “aggressively fighting states that can abuse the Federal Medicaid funds,” said Andrew Nixon, agency spokesman. The agency has not provided information on the role of DHS in the effort. Nixon also defended the legality to release DHS data.
“The HHS has fully complied with its legal authority and fully compliance with all the laws in force in order to ensure that Medicaid benefits are intended to be personally entitled to adopt them,” the report said.
Dozens of members of the Democratic Congress – both in the palace and the Senate – sent letters to related agencies, demanding that data sharing not have data and that the safety of the homeland is destroyed by the information so far. –
Associated press writer Olga R. Rodriguez San Francisco contributed.