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 ...

It is unclear whether the House bill could come back as an amendment to another measure before the legislative session ends ...

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

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

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

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 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 ...

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 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 ...