Greg Abbott (R) signed an executive order Thursday requiring hospitals to ask patients about their immigration status ... hospitals in Texas to gather data on “patients who are not lawfully ...

Policy experts say undocumented immigrants' cost to hospitals is a small fraction of the total cost from uninsured Texans.

Abbott’s executive order does ... The hospital-specific data does not indicate how much of the costs were paid for because the state did not ask hospitals to report that information.

Texas hospitals were billed nearly $122 million in health care costs racked up by illegal immigrants for one month last year, ...

Greg Abbott's push for hospitals to track immigration ... full quarterly data, and the first annual report will be released Jan. 1, 2026, according to the memo. The executive order requires ...

Preliminary data shows that “tens of thousands” of patients who were not “lawfully” in the United States were treated by Texas hospitals ... Abbott’s order into a regular annual report ...

Greg Abbott directed hospitals to start collecting data on patients’ immigration status. Abbott signed Executive Order No. GA-46 ... Hospitals are required to report the data to HHSC each ...

Hospitals were expected to turn in their first months of data by March 1 but it ... that would formalize Abbott’s order into a regular annual report each year, a Texas Health and Human Services ...

Preliminary data shows that “tens of thousands” of patients who were not “lawfully” in the United States were treated by Texas hospitals ... Abbott’s order into a regular annual report ...

Preliminary data ... formalize Abbott’s order into a regular annual report each year, a Texas Health and Human Services Commission executive answered lawmakers’ questions about what the agency has ...