
ICE Is Getting Unprecedented Access to Medicaid Data
Leah Feiger, Makena Kelly, Vittoria Elliott, Matt Giles
created: July 17, 2025, 9:44 p.m. | updated: July 21, 2025, 6:52 p.m.
Per the agreement, ICE officials will get login credentials for a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) database containing sensitive medical information, including detailed records about diagnoses and procedures.
Language in the agreement says it will allow ICE to access personal information such as home addresses, phone numbers, IP addresses, banking data, and social security numbers.
(Later on in the agreement, what ICE is allowed to access is defined differently, specifying just “Medicaid recipients” and their sex, ethnicity, and race but forgoing any mention of IP or banking data.)
Some states, like New York, provide Medicaid coverage for children and pregnant people, regardless of their immigration status.
States report their Medicaid expenditures and data to the federal government, which reimburses them for some of the costs.
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