Greg Abbott ... their immigration status to help the state determine the cost of providing healthcare to noncitizens. Beginning Nov. 1, Abbott is directing hospitals in Texas to gather data ...

Abbott’s executive order directed Texas hospitals ... report of data collected from hospital providers Jan. 1, 2026. THHSC said that hospital providers inform patients that their immigration ...

Greg Abbott — details ... 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 ... Hospitals are required to report the data to HHSC each quarter, and the first set of data was due ...

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 ...

Texas hospitals incurred ... Texas has reliable data on the dramatic financial impact that illegal immigration is having on our hospital system,” said Andrew Mahaleris, Abbott’s press ...

Mike Olcott’s House Bill 2587, which would have codified Abbott’s order into law, resulting in an annual report to the Texas Legislature on the estimated cost to hospitals for caring for ...

Policy experts say undocumented immigrants' cost to hospitals ... data on the dramatic financial impact that illegal immigration is having on our hospital system,” said Andrew Mahaleris, Abbott ...