Texas Hospitals Now Asking About Immigration Status: What Patients Need to Know
The policy, driven by Gov. Abbott's executive order, aims to assess healthcare costs for undocumented immigrants, sparking concerns about access and privacy.
Texas Hospitals Now Required to Ask About Immigration Status, Sparking Debates on Privacy and Healthcare Access
Texas hospitals must ask about patients' immigration status due to a new executive order, sparking concerns over privacy and healthcare access.
Texas hospitals ask patients about immigration status under Abbott’s order
Texas hospitals now asking patients about their immigration status. Patients can refuse to answer and still receive care
Gov. Abbott's order on immigration status sparks debate over healthcare access
Does Gov. Greg Abbott's new executive order actually prevent people from seeking help in the first place? Law professor Seth Chandler says the answer is, technically, no.
Texas Children’s Hospital comments on Abbott’s funding threat over immigration status order
An executive order issued by Abbott earlier this year directed Texas hospitals to ask patients if they are U.S. citizens, and begin collecting information about those who are not. The order, however d
Abbott threatens to withhold funds from Texas hospitals that don’t ask patients’ immigration status
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott threatened to restrict federal funding from Texas hospitals that refuse to “follow the law” after a Houston doctor asserted via social media that patients do not
Texas Children’s Hospital comments on Abbott’s funding threat over new immigration status question
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott threatened to restrict federal funding from Texas hospitals that refuse to “follow the law” after a Houston doctor asserted via social media that patients do not need to ...
Texas hospitals are now required to ask for patients’ citizenship. Here’s what you should know.
Para leer esta nota en español, haz clic aquí. On Nov. 1, Texas hospitals that accept Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance ...
Texas governor warns of 'consequences' to hospital funding after doctor's viral TikTok
Greg Abbott threatened to pull funding from Texas Children's Hospital after a doctor's viral video suggested a work-around to ...
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No, patients are not required to tell hospitals their immigration status
issued guidance to hospitals on how to report the data, but the directive lacks information on how to ask patients about their immigration status. According to guidance from Texas Health and ...