Hospitals in Texas that accept Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Plan (CHIP) have begun asking patients about their citizenship or immigration status as of this month.

More than 100,000 undocumented people sought medical care in Texas in the first four months that hospitals were required to ...

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, took ...

Texas governor directs hospitals to ask patients for immigration status Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday ordered hospitals in the Lone Star State to ask patients about their ...

Texas hospitals who are enrolled in state health plans, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program will start asking patients' immigration status in November.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed an executive order Thursday requiring hospitals to ask patients about their immigration status and report the data to the state.

Most Texas hospitals are required to ask patients for their immigration status under an executive order from Gov. Greg Abbott that took effect Friday.

Texas hospitals spent more than $121 million in November to care for immigrants who lack permanent legal status, according to a memo released Friday.

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

While the state says undocumented patients cost hospitals $329 million in three months, critics say the data lacks context ...

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

According to several advocacy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, while hospitals are required to ask patients about their citizenship or immigration status, they cannot force ...