Billal Rahman is an immigration reporter ... Billal at b.rahman@newsweek.com. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed an executive order requiring hospitals to collect data on the healthcare costs of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 — 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 ...

Mike Olcott’s House Bill 2587, which would have codified Abbott’s order into law, resulting in an annual report to the Texas Legislature on the estimated cost to hospitals for caring for ...

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 ...

Klein Fire Department units were called in to assist on the scene of a suspicious package with possible contamination. HCSO is investigating with Harris County HazMat assisting. Read full article ...