{"id":85910,"date":"2026-01-17T01:51:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T07:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=85910"},"modified":"2026-01-17T01:51:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T07:51:43","slug":"texas-news-illegal-aliens-cost-texas-hospitals-over-1-billion-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/17\/texas-news-illegal-aliens-cost-texas-hospitals-over-1-billion-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas News: Illegal Aliens Cost Texas Hospitals Over $1 Billion in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/texasscorecard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/pexels-pixabay-263402-scaled-e1768409988511.jpg\" alt=\"Emergency Room\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/texasscorecard.com\/state\/illegal-aliens-cost-texas-hospitals-over-1-billion-in-2025\/\">Illegal Aliens Cost Texas Hospitals Over $1 Billion in 2025<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>New data from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission surpasses earlier estimates.<\/h2>\n<h2>Texas hospitals incurred more than $1 billion in health care costs for patients not lawfully present in the United States during fiscal year 2025, according to new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/texasscorecard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/executive-order-ga-summary-2025.pdf\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">data<\/a>\u00a0obtained from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.<\/h2>\n<h2>The figures were collected under an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/texasscorecard.com\/state\/abbott-orders-hospitals-to-reports-costs-of-illegal-alien-healthcare\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">executive order<\/a>\u00a0issued by Gov. Greg Abbott in August 2024, which requires hospitals to report the cost of inpatient and emergency care provided to individuals in the country illegally. Under Abbott\u2019s order, hospitals are also required to inform patients that responses regarding immigration status will not affect their care, as required by federal law.<\/h2>\n<h2>Statewide totals show 313,742 hospital visits from patients not legally present in the U.S., costing hospitals $1.05 billion during the reporting period. The largest share of the expense\u2014more than $565 million\u2014came from inpatient discharges for non-Medicaid and non-CHIP patients.<\/h2>\n<h2>Emergency department visits accounted for roughly $230 million, while total inpatient care exceeded $820 million, underscoring that long-term hospitalizations, not emergency treatment alone, are driving much of the cost.<\/h2>\n<h2>Although hospitals are required under federal law to deliver the care, unpaid medical costs are ultimately passed along to Texans. Taxpayers absorb the burden through higher insurance rates, public hospital funding, and state health programs.<\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/texasscorecard.com\/state\/illegal-aliens-cost-texas-hospitals-over-1-billion-in-2025\/\">RTWT @ Texas Scorecard<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71584 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Illegal-Welfare-Line.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Illegal-Welfare-Line.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Illegal-Welfare-Line-300x291.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72972 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Illegal-Full.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Illegal-Full.jpg 400w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Illegal-Full-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79972 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Illegal-Deport-Cheap.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"710\" height=\"713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Illegal-Deport-Cheap.jpeg 710w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Illegal-Deport-Cheap-300x301.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Illegal-Deport-Cheap-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illegal Aliens Cost Texas Hospitals Over $1 Billion in 2025 &nbsp; New data from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission surpasses earlier estimates. Texas hospitals incurred more than $1 billion in health care costs for patients not lawfully present in the United States during fiscal year 2025, according to new\u00a0data\u00a0obtained from the Texas Health&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[13,74,9806,13991,4892,5984,5985,3727,16173,15639],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85910"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85913,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85910\/revisions\/85913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}