The clinicians and leaders of U.S. patient care organizations continue to find themselves in a kind of policy limbo around the data and information they share with federal and state authorities around their medical care for undocumented immigrants, a new report in Kaiser Health News finds.
As Ana B. Ibarra wrote in a new report in Kaiser Health News, “While the Trump administration decides whether to adopt a controversial policy that could jeopardize the legal status of immigrants who use public programs such as Medicaid, doctors and clinics are torn between informing patients about the potential risks and unnecessarily scaring them into dropping their coverage or avoiding care.”