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Texas Hospitals Now Asking About Immigration Status: What Patients Need to Know
Advocacy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), emphasize that while hospitals must ask the question ..
The Texas Tribune6mon
Texas hospitals are now required to ask for patients’ citizenship. Here’s what you should know.
On Nov. 1, Texas hospitals that accept Medicaid ... Hospital staff can ask about their citizenship or immigration status at any point during the intake process but asking the question cannot ...
KHOU 117mon
Texas hospitals must now ask patients whether they're in the US legally. Here's how it works
Texas hospitals must ask patients starting Friday whether ... t specify how hospital staff will ask patients about their immigration status, but the governor emphasized that people who are asked ...
Governing7mon
Texas Hospitals Will Now Ask Patients About Citizenship Status
Most Texas hospitals are now required to ask patients seeking care to reveal their immigration status. The new policy, established by an executive order issued by Gov. Greg Abbottin August ...
CBS News10mon
Texas Gov. Abbott instructs hospitals to collect data on patients' immigration status
Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday ordered hospitals in the Lone Star State to ask patients about their immigration status in order to ascertain the costs of providing medical care to ...
Dallas Morning News9mon
Texas hospitals, following Florida, will ask immigrants about their legal status
McALLEN, Texas (AP ... of “illegal aliens” coming to a hospital, saying it’s “more associated with rural county status than illegal immigration percentages.” The agency didn ...
The Texas Tribune10mon
Abbott order will require Texas hospitals to collect patients’ immigration status
spokesperson for the Texas Hospital Association. “Right now, hospitals don’t ask about patient immigration status as a condition of treatment. Hospitals are required by law to provide life ...
KHOU 117mon
No, patients are not required to tell hospitals their immigration status
issued guidance to hospitals on how to report the data, but the directive lacks information on how to ask patients about their immigration status. According to guidance from Texas Health and Human ...
Sun Sentinel8mon
Need to go to the hospital? Texas and Florida want to know your immigration status
State Sen. Victor Torres represents predominantly Hispanic Osceola County in central Florida. At Sunday Mass at his local church, immigrants often tell him they are scared to seek health care.
CBS News9mon
Florida hospitals ask immigrants about their legal status, and Texas is looking to try it next
She resisted, scared of a 2023 Florida law that required hospitals to ask whether ... health care. Texas and Florida have a long history of challenging the federal government's immigration ...
WLRN9mon
Florida hospitals ask immigrants about their legal status. Texas will try it next
She resisted, scared of a 2023 Florida law that required hospitals to ask whether ... health care. Texas and Florida have a long history of challenging the federal government’s immigration ...