Medicaid Set for Scrutiny as Trump Targets Immigration

The Trump administration’s laser focus on curtailing illegal immigration could test Medicaid programs that offer various forms of the low-income insurance benefit to patients regardless of immigration status, lawyers say.

Among those programs is emergency Medicaid, which offers temporary coverage to patients at risk of fatal or disabling medical emergencies who wouldn’t traditionally be able to enroll in the program due to their immigration status.

The potential for added scrutiny comes amid a rash of executive orders by President Donald Trump directing federal agencies to increase their oversight and enforcement authority on immigration.

The program was launched shortly after passage ...