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
Texas Children’s Hospital comments on Abbott’s funding threat over new immigration status question
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
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 Plan coverage started asking all patients about their immigration status and whether they are lawfully present in the United States.
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.
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
Gov. Abbott Warns Texas Children’s Hospital in Funding Showdown Over Immigration Policy and Viral TikTok Clash
Gov. Abbott threatens Texas Children’s Hospital over funding due to a cardiologist's TikTok opposing an immigration order.
Texas Gov. Abbott threatens to pull funding from hospital after doctor’s TikTok
Gov. Greg Abbott threatened to pull funding from Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine after a doctor in Houston said patients don’t have to answer whether they’re U.S. citizens on intake documents.
After Abbott's threat to limit Medicare, Medicaid funding, Texas Children's Hospital responds
After Texas Gov. Greg Abbott threatened Medicare and Medicaid funding for hospitals that fail to “follow the law" as outlined in his Aug. 8 executive order — which requires hospitals that accept Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Plan to ask patients "are you a U.
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
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 ...
Gov. Greg Abbott warns Texas Children’s Hospital over doctor’s viral comments
A doctor spoke out in a TikTok against the executive order requiring Texas public hospitals to collect information about ...