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 ...

Texas hospitals spent more than $121 million over the course of one month treating undocumented migrants, according to a memo released Friday morning.

A new report shows that in Nov. 2024 Texas hospitals spent $121.8 million on health care for people in the country illegally.

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 ...

Abbott stated in the order that the purpose ... “Now, Texas has reliable data on the dramatic financial impact that illegal immigration is having on our hospital system,” said Andrew Mahaleris ...

Greg Abbott signed ... its first yearly report of data collected from hospital providers Jan. 1, 2026. THHSC said that hospital providers inform patients that their immigration status responses ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...