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

Greg Abbott signed an executive order requiring hospitals to collect data on the healthcare costs ... Director Dr. Ivan Melendez told Border Report. The order signed by the Texas governor is ...

McALLEN, Texas (Border Report ... that the collection of data is a way for the Lone Star state to, in effect, bill the federal government. Abbott says hospitals must tell patients that ...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered hospitals to gather data on the immigration status of patients ... the help that they need," he told Border Report. "This is completely uncalled for." ...

Greg Abbott has ordered Texas hospitals enrolled in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program to report ... data were available. The costs are not broken down by citizenship or ...

Additionally, hospitals must report the data ... fund Abbott’s Operation Lone Star. Governor Greg Abbott explained in an official statement from 2023 that he launched Operation Lone Star in March 2021 ...

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 ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s Executive Order GA-46, requiring hospitals to collect and report data about the citizenship and immigration status of patients takes effect on Friday, ...

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

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.