Report: Less than 1% of hospital admissions, emergency room visits made by undocumented migrants

Source: Florida Politics



Christine Jordan Sexton March 5, 20246min


The first official report after Florida’s sweeping immigration measures were put in place a year ago shows that less than 1% of all Florida hospital admissions and emergency room visits were from patients who self-reported as not legally residing in the United States.

But that report also points out that many people would not answer the question.
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The report estimates that hospitals provided more than $573 million in health care services to patients who were not in the country legally. But AHCA was unable to determine how much of that care provided to migrants was uncompensated or find “any obvious correlation between the level of uncompensated care and the level of illegal aliens presenting at the hospital.”

And the report stated that “high levels of uncompensated care are more associated with rural county status than illegal immigration percentages. There also did not appear to be a correlation between total profitability and illegal immigration percentages. All the counties that had negative profit margins had below average illegal immigration ratios.”

The report was required under a law designed to clamp down on illegal immigration in Florida. The 2023 law, passed as Gov Ron DeSantis prepared to announce his bid for President, hiked penalties on those aiding migrants to enter the state or employing migrants. Immigration groups, such as The Florida Immigration Coalition, say the law has had a chilling impact on people seeking emergency care, especially pregnant women........................................

Read more: https://floridapolitics.com/archives/663473-report-less-than-1-of-hospital-admissions-emergency-room-visits-made-by-undocumented-migrants/

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My guess in that if illegal, they would not show up at a hospital unless SEVERELY injured. IMHO


The state of Florida tried to put together a report showing that uncompensated healthcare costs
are attributed to undocumented people (by mandating healthcare providers ask immigration status of patients)
and their own report showed exactly the opposite.

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