Section 210-RICR-10-05-1.1 - PurposeA. The Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) has an ethical and legal obligation to safeguard and maintain as confidential the information it receives from or about Medicaid applicants and beneficiaries. In accordance with R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 40-6, all records pertaining to the administration of the Medicaid Program are confidential in nature. It is unlawful for any person to make use of, or cause to be used, any information contained in these records for purposes not directly connected with the administration of the Medicaid Program, except with the consent of the person affected.B. Further, 42 C.F.R. § 431.300 et seq. requires EOHHS to have safeguards in place that restrict the use or disclosure of information about Medicaid applicants and beneficiaries. The purpose of this document is to meet this requirement and to safeguard and maintain applicant /beneficiary information as confidential.C. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prohibit the EOHHS Secretary, or his/her duly authorized agents, from issuing any statistical material or data, or publishing or causing the same to be published whenever he/she shall deem it to be in the public interest.210 R.I. Code R. 210-RICR-10-05-1.1