Greg Abbott (R) signed an executive order Thursday requiring hospitals to ask patients about their immigration status ... hospitals in Texas to gather data on “patients who are not lawfully ...

Texas hospitals were billed nearly $122 million in health care costs racked up by illegal immigrants for one month last year, ...

Texas hospitals spent more than $121 million over the course of one month treating undocumented migrants, according to a memo released Friday morning.

The data was required to be reported under an executive order from Gov. Abbott. AUSTIN - A new report from ... cannot walk ...

Preliminary data shows that “tens of thousands” of patients who were not “lawfully” in the United States were treated by Texas hospitals ... Abbott’s order into a regular annual report ...

Greg Abbott directed hospitals to start collecting data on patients’ immigration status. Abbott signed Executive Order No. GA-46 ... Hospitals are required to report the data to HHSC each ...

Abbott stated in the order that the purpose ... “Now, Texas has reliable data on the dramatic financial impact that illegal immigration is having on our hospital system,” said Andrew Mahaleris ...

Preliminary data shows that “tens of thousands” of patients who were not “lawfully” in the United States were treated by Texas hospitals ... Abbott’s order into a regular annual report ...

Hospitals were expected to turn in their first months of data by March 1 but it ... that would formalize Abbott’s order into a regular annual report each year, a Texas Health and Human Services ...