Texas Hospitals Now Asking About Immigration Status: What Patients Need to Know
The policy, driven by Gov. Abbott's executive order, aims to assess healthcare costs for undocumented immigrants, sparking concerns about access and privacy.
Texas Hospitals Now Required to Ask About Immigration Status, Sparking Debates on Privacy and Healthcare Access
Texas hospitals must ask about patients' immigration status due to a new executive order, sparking concerns over privacy and healthcare access.
Texas hospitals ask patients about immigration status under Abbott’s order
Texas hospitals now asking patients about their immigration status. Patients can refuse to answer and still receive care
Texas Children’s Hospital comments on Abbott’s funding threat over new immigration status question
An executive order issued by Abbott earlier this year directed Texas hospitals to ask patients if they are U.S. citizens, and begin collecting information about those who are not. The order, however d
East Texas hospitals now required to ask patients about citizenship status
KLTV reached out to East Texas hospitals to ask how the change would affect patients going forward. According to CHRISTUS Health, patients should not see a change to their care re
Texas Gov. Abbott threatens to pull funding from hospital after doctor’s TikTok
Gov. Greg Abbott threatened to pull funding from Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine after a doctor in Houston said patients don’t have to answer whether they’re U.S. citizens on intake documents.
After Abbott's threat to limit Medicare, Medicaid funding, Texas Children's Hospital responds
After Texas Gov. Greg Abbott threatened Medicare and Medicaid funding for hospitals that fail to “follow the law" as outlined in his Aug. 8 executive order — which requires hospitals that accept Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Plan to ask patients "are you a U.
Texas Children’s Hospital comments on Abbott’s funding threat over immigration status order
An executive order issued by Abbott earlier this year directed Texas hospitals to ask patients if they are U.S. citizens, and begin collecting information about those who are not. The order, however d
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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 ...
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Gov. Abbott's order on immigration status sparks debate over healthcare access
Does Gov. Greg Abbott's new executive order actually prevent people from seeking help in the first place? Law professor Seth ...
Texas governor warns of 'consequences' to hospital funding after doctor's viral TikTok
Greg Abbott threatened to pull funding from Texas Children's Hospital after a doctor's viral video suggested a work-around to ...
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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 ...
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Hospitals must ask patients about immigration 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 Abbott in August ...
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Doctors React to Texas Rule Requiring Them to Ask About Immigration Status
Opens in a new tab or window A new Texas rule that requires hospitals to ask patients about immigration status has raised concern about further straining trust between physicians and their ...