Hospitals in Texas that accept Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Plan (CHIP) have begun asking patients about their citizenship or immigration status as of this month. This new policy ...

Most Texas hospitals are now required to ask patients seeking care to reveal their immigration status. The new policy, established by an executive order issued by Gov. Greg Abbottin August, took ...

Texas governor directs hospitals to ask patients for immigration status 02:35. Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday ordered hospitals in the Lone Star State to ask patients about their ...

Texas hospitals who are enrolled in state health plans, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program will start asking patients' immigration status in November.

More than 100,000 undocumented people sought medical care in Texas in the first four months that hospitals were required to ask every patient their immigration status — but that represents a ...

While the state says undocumented patients cost hospitals $329 million in three months, critics say the data lacks context ...

Texas hospitals spent more than $121 million in November to care for immigrants who ... The executive order requires hospitals to ask about a patients’ citizenship or immigration status, ...

Texas hospitals were left on the hook for nearly $122 million in health care costs racked up by illegal immigrants for one month last year, the first month the state began tracking the figures.

Hospitals throughout Texas reported to the state health agency the cost of more than 30,000 hospital visits by undocumented immigrants after Gov. Greg Abbott ordered Texas hospitals to ask all ...

Hospitals throughout Texas reported to the state health agency the cost of more than 30,000 hospital visits by undocumented immigrants after Gov. Greg Abbott ordered Texas hospitals to ask all ...

On Nov. 1, Texas hospitals that accept Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Plan coverage started asking all patients about their immigration status and whether they are lawfully present in ...