Dept. of Justice: AG Kaul sues to stop federal government from sharing Wisconsin Medicaid data

MADISON, Wis. – Attorney General Josh Kaul announced that Wisconsin has joined a multistate lawsuit to block the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from using or sharing personally identifiable, protected state Medicaid data for purposes unrelated to health care. “Information that the federal government has about people’s health should ...