Billal Rahman is an immigration reporter based ... Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed an executive order requiring hospitals to collect data on the healthcare costs of undocumented migrants treated ...

McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ... s immigration status, or willingness or ability to pay for such treatment.” His order requires hospitals to collect ...

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.

The order requires providers to report quarterly data from March 1, 2025. Hospitals must ... on collecting patients' immigration status data. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott at the Republican National ...

An executive order from Gov. Greg Abbott requires public hospitals to ask patients' immigration status ... if they are in the U.S. legally and then report those numbers and the cost of treatment ...

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 ...

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’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.

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 ...