Texas says undocumented immigrants visited local hospitals 80K times in three months. That’s 2% of all visits.

Texas hospitals must ask patients for citizenship information, but patients can decline to answer. (Credit: Maria Crane for The Texas Tribune)

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Texas hospitals received nearly 80,000 visits from undocumented patients from December through February at a cost of $329 million, according to data released by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission on Wednesday. That’s about 2% of all patient visits during that three-month period.