Texas hospitals spent more than $121 ... The executive order requires hospitals to ask about a patients’ citizenship or immigration status, but it does not require the patient to answer.

who has implemented numerous policies and signed laws aimed at cracking down on migrants who are in Texas without proper legal status, ordered hospitals to ask patients for their immigration ...

A Texas bill requiring hospitals to report ... Greg Abbott's order for hospitals to track patients' legal status. A Democratic lawmaker successfully challenged the bill on procedural grounds.

THHSC said that hospital providers inform patients that their immigration status responses do not affect their care, as required by federal law. Texas, a border state, reported some of the highest ...

State lawmakers voted Monday to require hospitals to inquire whether patients are in the U.S. illegally despite concerns that ...

Texas hospitals incurred $121.8 million ... who has filed House Bill 2587 that would codify Abbott’s order to ask for citizenship status of hospital patients, said that knowing the cost of ...

While hospitals in Texas are required to ask each patient their immigration status, patients are not required to answer. About 195,000 patients — 15.96% — did not answer the question.

In one of 35 new vetoes late Monday, Gov. Katie Hobbs rejected a proposal by Sen. Wendy Rogers to require hospitals that ...

who has implemented numerous policies and signed laws aimed at cracking down on migrants who are in Texas without proper legal status, ordered hospitals to ask patients for their immigration ...

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