The recent reversal of a Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) policy that had kept agents out of "sensitive locations," and promised raids by the Trump administration, suggest that ICE may be expected to come to physician practices in search of undocumented patients or staff.

Readers of our physician practice management weekly will want to know what their rights and legal requirements are in such situations. For example:

- Is the practice legally required to grant admittance to ICE agents under any circumstances, with or without warrants?
- Under what circumstances are practices legally required to give/prohibited from giving ICE agents written and/or verbal information on staff or patients? (Is HIPAA a blanket prohibition on giving them patient information?)
- If ICE access is required, what should practices then do to keep from violating the rights of staff and patients?
- Do local/state policies change any of this?

Thanks,
Roy Edroso
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