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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...