State&#39;s hospitals can get money if illegal immigrants give status
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During the next four years, hospitals in the state of Washington could be reimbursed nearly $13 million for emergency care they provide to uninsured illegal immigrants.
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Business owners could soon face fines and even jail time if they hire illegal immigrants in this Long Island community, the latest in one of many efforts by local governments across the country to crack down on undocumented workers.
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Thousands of Medi-Cal patients in Santa Clara County may not be able to use their local hospital to deliver babies or have non-emergency operations starting Tuesday.
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Bank of America's decision makes it easier for legal immigrants to build credit. But critics say it helps illegal migrants.
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The nonprofit company that runs the Prince George's hospital system has gone to court to pry loose public dollars that hospital officials say are needed to keep the system open.
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State lawmakers approved a measure late Monday that would force a million people receiving state or federal aid to verify their citizenship, part of a package of bills dealing with illegal immigration that Democrats called the toughest in the nation.
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With a comprehensive immigration overhaul now perhaps years away, Latin American governments concerned with the well-being of their nationals living in this country are taking on an equally thorny issue: the U.S. health-care system.
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The sweeping immigration bills in Congress would add many thousands of beds to the patchwork network of detention facilities that hold illegal immigrants and asylum-seekers &amp;#151; places that critics say are over-costly and under-regulated.
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Working the phones of a health-care hotline in Boston, Kate Bicego does something that is unique in the country: she explains how even the poorest people can get state-funded health coverage.
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California officials are unveiling a proposed bill that would make it a crime to drop off hospital patients on the street.
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City officials have approved a plan to offer illegal immigrants identification cards that would let them open bank accounts and use other services that may be unavailable without driver's licenses or state-issued IDs.
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State officials are picking new targets in their efforts to stop illegal immigration in Arizona: the "drop houses" where human smugglers hold customers until they pay up.
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RALEIGH, NC -- A lawyer says two of North Carolina&#39;s largest hospitals are gouging patients who make too much money to get charity care but can&#39;t afford their own health insurance.
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Some Prince William businesses fear that the county's recent move to cut public services to illegal immigrants could hurt their operations should the Hispanic community, one of the fastest-growing in the region, decide it is no longer welcome.
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Nonprofit hospitals routinely overcharge or deny care to patients least able to pay, Senate investigators have found, raising questions about whether the institutions should be eligible for tax exemptions that cost the U.S. Treasury billions of dollars a year.
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A group of the nationâs largest for-profit hospital chains plan to propose that individuals be required to have basic health coverage.
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Now that Arizona has passed a ballot measure to keep illegal immigrants from obtaining some government services, groups in several other states are considering similar proposals.