<i>Breaking the Firewall</i> —The Moral Calamity of Using Medicaid Data for Immigration Enforcement

This Viewpoint lays out the consequences of the proposed agreement to share Medicaid patient data with the Department of Homeland Security and offers advice to clinicians and health care administrators on how to protect patients.

Authors

Lilia Cervantes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9912-5684)
Patricia Mae G. Santos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5868-7322)
Benjamin D. Sommers (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6507-6047)
Rachel Fabi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3027-7812)

Institutions

Harvard University (US)
Emory University (US)
SUNY Upstate Medical University (US)
Georgia Department of Public Health (US)
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (US)

Publication Details

Journal: JAMA
Published: 2025-09-04
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2025.16900
Citations: 2
Primary Topic: Torture, Ethics, and Law
Type: article
Field-Weighted Citation Impact: 8.40

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article

Breaking the Firewall —The Moral Calamity of Using Medicaid Data for Immigration Enforcement

Lilia Cervantes, Patricia Mae G. Santos, Benjamin D. Sommers, Rachel Fabi

Sep 4, 2025

2 citations

JAMA

Torture, Ethics, and Law

8.40

article

Breaking the Firewall —The Moral Calamity of Using Medicaid Data for Immigration Enforcement

Lilia Cervantes, Patricia Mae G. Santos, Benjamin D. Sommers, Rachel Fabi

September 4, 2025article en

2 citations

Abstract

This Viewpoint lays out the consequences of the proposed agreement to share Medicaid patient data with the Department of Homeland Security and offers advice to clinicians and health care administrators on how to protect patients.

JAMAVol. 334(19)

Harvard University (US), Emory University (US), SUNY Upstate Medical University (US), Georgia Department of Public Health (US), University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (US)

Openalex Percentile: Top 3%

Torture, Ethics, and Law

8.40

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