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 soon-to-be mother didn’t go to the emergency room for a concern weeks before giving birth. Instead, her first stop was a community reproductive health clinic in northeast Austin.

A Temple spokesperson, without identifying the patient by name, said she was asked about citizenship in error. It appears ...

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

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 ...

Late Tuesday, the Texas House was set to vote on state Rep. Mike Olcott’s House Bill 2587, which would have codified Abbott’s ...

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

Hospitals throughout Texas reported to the state health ... who has filed House Bill 2587 that would codify Abbott’s order to ask for citizenship status of hospital patients, said that knowing ...