Judge Orders Health Officials to Stop Sharing Some Medicaid Data With Immigration Authorities

Officials wrongly did not ‘carry out a reasoned decisionmaking process’ before sharing the data, the judge said.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services at the Hubert H. Humphrey building in Washington on April 28, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must stop sharing some Medicaid data with immigration officials, a federal judge has ruled.

District Judge Vince Chhabria, of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, said on Aug. 12 that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a component of HHS, failed to “carry out a reasoned decisionmaking process” before deciding to share the data with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).