Greg Abbott ... their immigration status to help the state determine the cost of providing healthcare to noncitizens. Beginning Nov. 1, Abbott is directing hospitals in Texas to gather data ...

Greg Abbott — details ... The hospital-specific data does not indicate how much of the costs were paid for because the state did not ask hospitals to report that information.

Greg Abbott directed hospitals to start collecting data on patients’ immigration status ... Hospitals are required to report the data to HHSC each quarter, and the first set of data was due ...

Policy experts say undocumented immigrants' cost to hospitals ... data on the dramatic financial impact that illegal immigration is having on our hospital system,” said Andrew Mahaleris, Abbott ...

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 ...

Texas hospitals incurred ... Texas has reliable data on the dramatic financial impact that illegal immigration is having on our hospital system,” said Andrew Mahaleris, Abbott’s press ...