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, according to a new report.

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

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 ...

Abbott’s executive order does ... The hospital-specific data does not indicate how much of the costs were paid for because the state did not ask hospitals to report that information.

Greg Abbott's push for hospitals to track immigration ... full quarterly data, and the first annual report will be released Jan. 1, 2026, according to the memo. The executive order requires ...

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 ...

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 ...