Federal judge allows HHS to share Medicaid data with ICE

A federal judge in California ruled Monday that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) can share Medicaid data with immigration enforcement authorities, but he kept in place limits on what data the agencies can share and what can be used.

A group of 20 Democratic attorneys general sued the Trump administration in July, seeking to block it from sharing Medicaid data with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), arguing it violated privacy protections...