Advocacy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), emphasize that while hospitals must ask the question ..

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday ordered hospitals in the Lone Star State to ask patients about their immigration status in order to ascertain the costs of providing medical care to ...

On Nov. 1, Texas hospitals that accept Medicaid ... Hospital staff can ask about their citizenship or immigration status at any point during the intake process but asking the question cannot ...

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 ...

Texas hospitals must ask patients starting Friday whether ... t specify how hospital staff will ask patients about their immigration status, but the governor emphasized that people who are asked ...

She resisted, scared of a 2023 Florida law that required hospitals to ask whether ... health care. Texas and Florida have a long history of challenging the federal government's immigration ...

Texas hospitals spent more than $121 ... The executive order requires hospitals to ask about a patients’ citizenship or immigration status, but it does not require the patient to answer.

While hospitals in Texas are required to ask each patient their immigration status, patients are not required to answer. About 195,000 patients — 15.96% — did not answer the question.

Texas hospitals were left on the hook for nearly ... THHSC said that hospital providers inform patients that their immigration status responses do not affect their care, as required by federal ...

The field is optional and UMMC staff are not required to input the information or ask patients about their citizenship status ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed an executive order Thursday requiring hospitals to ask patients about their immigration status to help the state determine the cost of providing health care to ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - Hospitals in East Texas are complying ... Texas that accept Medicaid funding and CHIP to ask for patients’ immigration status. Health and Food Justice Program Manager ...