A center for immigration studies on hospital and emergency room cost

These reports and articles present the high medical cost associated with illegal and legal immigration.

Footing the bill for undocumented immigrants, Bucks County Courier Times (PA), 2009.
"Taxpayers footed a $25.3 million bill in 2007-08 to pay for emergency health care for non-citizens in Pennsylvania. Tax-funded subsidies of $2 million went to seven area hospitals."
The High Cost of Cheap Labor, by Mark Krikorian, Center for Immigration Studies, 2008.
"The state of Texas and local hospital districts spent an estimated $677 million to provide health care to illegal immigrants in a year, a new study says."
The Basic Right of Citizenship: A Comparative Study, by Sarah A. Adams, Center for Immigration Studies, 1993.
"Michael Antonovich of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors states that two-thirds of the births in Los Angeles county hospitals are to illegal aliens. Additionally, Mr. Antonovich notes that these children now account for 30 percent of all AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) cases in Los Angeles County."
Twin Crises: Hospital and Infrastructure, by Frosty Wooldrige, NewsWithViews, 2009
" In California, 60 hospitals and ERs bankrupted out existence because of EMTALA - passed in 1986, Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act: mandated by Congress."
Martin County hospital prevails in immigrant deportation case, The Stuart News (FL), 2009.
"The jury deliberated for about nine hours in all before finding Martin Memorial did not act in an unreasonable or unwarranted manner when the hospital relied upon a 2003 court order obtained by a state probate judge to privately repatriate former patient Luis Jimenez to his native Guatemala."
Hospitals lose immigrant care money, KOLD News, Tucson, AZ, 2008.
"[US Senator Jon] Kyl was able to get Congress to appropriate a billion dollars over four years to pay hospitals all along the US Mexican border from California to Texas. It was part of the Medicare reform bill. It's called 1011 money.... UMC, which has the only level one trauma center in Southern Arizona, was getting about $2 million a year. It helps reimburse the hospital for the $6 million it spends annually for emergency care for immigrants."
Hospital and Infrastructure - Immigration and Infrastructure, by Edwin S. Rubenstein, The Social Contract, 2009.
"Immigrants are disproportionately employed in low-wage jobs, small firms, and service or trade jobs that are less likely to offer health benefits. More than 46 percent of foreign-born noncitizens were uninsured in 2006 - three times the uninsurance rate of native-born persons (15 percent). Most of the growth of the uninsured population is due to immigration: Over the 1994 to 2006 period, immigrants accounted for 55 percent of the increase."
Hospital Studies Costs Of Treating Illegal Immigrants, Dallas Morning News, 2007.
"Estimating the number of illegal immigrants in Tarrant County at 107,000, the study calculated that expanding the charity program would cost the hospital district an additional $41.3 million right now. That number would increase to $114.4 million by 2017, according to the study. "
Illegal Immigration Enters the Health-Care Debate, Wall Street Journal, 2009.
"A watchdog group is now calling on county officials to cut funding for clinic patients who can't prove they are in the U.S. legally, a debate certain to surface in the national health-care overhaul... Roughly half of the 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. don't have health insurance, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.. Emergency-room visits, where treatment costs are much higher than in clinics, jumped 32% nationally between 1996 and 2006, the latest data available... During 2006, the [Sutter Solano Medical Center] hospital had to write off $12 million in "charity care" -- or services provided to low-income patients who couldn't pay their bills. The charity helped create a $4 million budget shortfall that year."
Congressional Testimony, of Isaac A. Reyes, Washington Representative of the U.S./Mexico Border Counties Coalition House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law Problems with Immigration Detainee Medical Care, 2008
"Our 2002 study, entitled 'Medical Emergency: Who Pays the Price for Uncompensated Emergency Medical Care Along the Southwest Border?' provides an Page 1 of 3 U.S. House Judiciary Committee estimate for the cost of providing emergency hospital and transportation services to undocumented immigrants. Our study determined undocumented immigrants cost border hospitals $189.6 million in uncompensated emergency medical costs during 2000. To put this figure in context, total reported uncompensated costs at border hospitals were $831 million, meaning that costs attributable to undocumented immigrants comprised almost 25 percent of the uncompensated emergency room care. In addition, we estimate that emergency medical service providers had $13 million in uncompensated costs, bringing the total to more than $200 million in uncompensated emergency medical costs during 2000. The $200 million broke down in the following manner: $79 million in California, $74 million in Texas, $31 million in Arizona, and $6 million in New Mexico."
ABOUT $2 MILLION A MONTH: More illegal immigrants getting emergency treatment at UMC, Las Vegas Review Journal, 2010
"'The cost to our taxpayers is astronomical,' commissioner says."
What Accounts For Differences In The Use Of Hospital Emergency Departments Across U.S. Communities?, Health Affairs, 2006.
"Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries tend to have the highest levels of health care use overall, including EDs [Emergency Departments], and public coverage expansions since the late 1990s, along with increases in the number of elderly Americans in Medicare, could also be contributing to increases in ED use. In addition, some have expressed concern that continued increases in the number of undocumented immigrants are straining hospitals' ED capacity, especially along the Mexican border."
Texas ERs will get funds from feds - $46 million is to cover costs for illegal immigrants, Houston Chronicle, 2006
"The four-year program, approved in 2003 but not immediately implemented, will divide $250 million each year among all states, with Texas and five other states getting the lion's share. That share is based on a formula that considers the estimated population of illegal immigrants per state and also how effectively states such as Texas apprehend those immigrants. Texas will get up to $46 million in 2005, second only to $71 million for California."

Here is more information on CIS labor issues.


Home About Studies Welfare Medicaid Hospital		A center for immigration studies on hospital and emergency room cost These reports and articles present the high medical cost associated with illegal and legal immigration. Footing the bill for undocumented immigrants, Bucks County Courier Times (PA), 2009. "Taxpayers footed a $25.3 million bill in 2007-08 to pay for emergency health care for non-citizens in Pennsylvania. Tax-funded subsidies of $2 million went to seven area hospitals." The High Cost of Cheap Labor, by Mark Krikorian, Center for Immigration Studies, 2008. "The state of Texas and local hospital districts spent an estimated $677 million to provide health care to illegal immigrants in a year, a new study says." The Basic Right of Citizenship: A Comparative Study, by Sarah A. Adams, Center for Immigration Studies, 1993. "Michael Antonovich of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors states that two-thirds of the births in Los Angeles county hospitals are to illegal aliens. Additionally, Mr. Antonovich notes that these children now account for 30 percent of all AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) cases in Los Angeles County." Twin Crises: Hospital and Infrastructure, by Frosty Wooldrige, NewsWithViews, 2009 " In California, 60 hospitals and ERs bankrupted out existence because of EMTALA - passed in 1986, Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act: mandated by Congress." Martin County hospital prevails in immigrant deportation case, The Stuart News (FL), 2009. "The jury deliberated for about nine hours in all before finding Martin Memorial did not act in an unreasonable or unwarranted manner when the hospital relied upon a 2003 court order obtained by a state probate judge to privately repatriate former patient Luis Jimenez to his native Guatemala." Hospitals lose immigrant care money, KOLD News, Tucson, AZ, 2008. "[US Senator Jon] Kyl was able to get Congress to appropriate a billion dollars over four years to pay hospitals all along the US Mexican border from California to Texas. It was part of the Medicare reform bill. It's called 1011 money.... UMC, which has the only level one trauma center in Southern Arizona, was getting about $2 million a year. It helps reimburse the hospital for the $6 million it spends annually for emergency care for immigrants." Hospital and Infrastructure - Immigration and Infrastructure, by Edwin S. Rubenstein, The Social Contract, 2009. "Immigrants are disproportionately employed in low-wage jobs, small firms, and service or trade jobs that are less likely to offer health benefits. More than 46 percent of foreign-born noncitizens were uninsured in 2006 - three times the uninsurance rate of native-born persons (15 percent). Most of the growth of the uninsured population is due to immigration: Over the 1994 to 2006 period, immigrants accounted for 55 percent of the increase." Hospital Studies Costs Of Treating Illegal Immigrants, Dallas Morning News, 2007. "Estimating the number of illegal immigrants in Tarrant County at 107,000, the study calculated that expanding the charity program would cost the hospital district an additional $41.3 million right now. That number would increase to $114.4 million by 2017, according to the study. " Illegal Immigration Enters the Health-Care Debate, Wall Street Journal, 2009. "A watchdog group is now calling on county officials to cut funding for clinic patients who can't prove they are in the U.S. legally, a debate certain to surface in the national health-care overhaul... Roughly half of the 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. don't have health insurance, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.. Emergency-room visits, where treatment costs are much higher than in clinics, jumped 32% nationally between 1996 and 2006, the latest data available... During 2006, the [Sutter Solano Medical Center] hospital had to write off $12 million in "charity care" -- or services provided to low-income patients who couldn't pay their bills. The charity helped create a $4 million budget shortfall that year." Congressional Testimony, of Isaac A. Reyes, Washington Representative of the U.S./Mexico Border Counties Coalition House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law Problems with Immigration Detainee Medical Care, 2008 "Our 2002 study, entitled 'Medical Emergency: Who Pays the Price for Uncompensated Emergency Medical Care Along the Southwest Border?' provides an Page 1 of 3 U.S. House Judiciary Committee estimate for the cost of providing emergency hospital and transportation services to undocumented immigrants. Our study determined undocumented immigrants cost border hospitals $189.6 million in uncompensated emergency medical costs during 2000. To put this figure in context, total reported uncompensated costs at border hospitals were $831 million, meaning that costs attributable to undocumented immigrants comprised almost 25 percent of the uncompensated emergency room care. In addition, we estimate that emergency medical service providers had $13 million in uncompensated costs, bringing the total to more than $200 million in uncompensated emergency medical costs during 2000. The $200 million broke down in the following manner: $79 million in California, $74 million in Texas, $31 million in Arizona, and $6 million in New Mexico." ABOUT $2 MILLION A MONTH: More illegal immigrants getting emergency treatment at UMC, Las Vegas Review Journal, 2010 "'The cost to our taxpayers is astronomical,' commissioner says." What Accounts For Differences In The Use Of Hospital Emergency Departments Across U.S. Communities?, Health Affairs, 2006. "Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries tend to have the highest levels of health care use overall, including EDs [Emergency Departments], and public coverage expansions since the late 1990s, along with increases in the number of elderly Americans in Medicare, could also be contributing to increases in ED use. In addition, some have expressed concern that continued increases in the number of undocumented immigrants are straining hospitals' ED capacity, especially along the Mexican border." Texas ERs will get funds from feds - $46 million is to cover costs for illegal immigrants, Houston Chronicle, 2006 "The four-year program, approved in 2003 but not immediately implemented, will divide $250 million each year among all states, with Texas and five other states getting the lion's share. That share is based on a formula that considers the estimated population of illegal immigrants per state and also how effectively states such as Texas apprehend those immigrants. Texas will get up to $46 million in 2005, second only to $71 million for California." Here is more information on CIS labor issues.
Home Copyright 2010-2011