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

While hospitals in Texas are required to ask each patient their immigration status, patients are not required to answer. About 195,000 patients — 15.96% — did not answer the question.

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

Texas hospitals were left on the hook for nearly ... THHSC said that hospital providers inform patients that their immigration status responses do not affect their care, as required by federal ...

A Texas bill requiring hospitals to report ... Greg Abbott's order for hospitals to track patients' legal status. A Democratic lawmaker successfully challenged the bill on procedural grounds.

We summarize two documents that explain how hospitals and their staff can prepare for the removal of the protected areas ...

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 ...

Texas hospitals incurred $121.8 million in health care costs in November from patients who were not “lawfully” permitted to be in the country, according to data released by the Texas Health ...

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TEXAS, USA — This article was originally published by our content partners at the Texas Tribune. Read the original article here. Texas hospitals incurred $121.8 million in health care costs in ...