Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed an executive order Thursday requiring hospitals to ask patients about their immigration status to help the state determine the cost of providing health care to ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed an executive order requiring hospitals to collect data on the healthcare costs ... Director Dr. Ivan Melendez told Border Report. The order signed by the Texas ...

Abbott’s executive order directed Texas hospitals ... report of data collected from hospital providers Jan. 1, 2026. THHSC said that hospital providers inform patients that their immigration ...

Greg Abbott — details the number and costs of visits from November. Across Texas ... data does not indicate how much of the costs were paid for because the state did not ask hospitals to 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 ...

The memo released by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission offers the first look at data that Gov. Greg Abbott required hospitals to report ... hospitals to track immigration status ...

Greg Abbott directed hospitals to start collecting data on patients’ immigration status ... state hospitals, the Texas Tribune reported. Hospitals are required to report the data to HHSC ...

Read full article: Hundreds of protestors march in opposition to Trump’s immigration policies HOUSTON, TEXAS - DECEMBER 23: A sign at the entrance to William P. Hobby Airport on December 23 ...