Greg Abbott threatened to pull funding from Texas Children's Hospital after a doctor's viral video suggested a work-around to an executive order.

"Hey Texas Children’s Hospital & Baylor College of Medicine this doctor is putting your Medicaid & Medicare funding at risk. [You] better think twice & have crystal clear records," Abbott wrote on X.

The post comes after Tony Pastor, a doctor at Texas’s Children’s Hospital and assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine, posted a TikTok, that has since been deleted, in which he encouraged patients to not answer whether they are a U.S. citizen on their intake form at the hospital.

Gov. Greg Abbott threatened to pull funding from Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine after a doctor in Houston said patients don’t have to answer whether they’re U.S. citizens on intake documents.

A viral TikTok video is creating tension between the Texas Children’s Hospital and Gov. Greg Abbott in relation to a recent order.

After Texas Gov. Greg Abbott threatened Medicare and Medicaid funding for hospitals that fail to “follow the law" as outlined in his Aug. 8 executive order — which requires hospitals that accept Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Plan to ask patients "are you a U.

An executive order issued by Abbott earlier this year directed Texas hospitals to ask patients if they are U.S. citizens, and begin collecting information about those who are not. The order, however d

An executive order issued by Abbott earlier this year directed Texas hospitals to ask patients if they are U.S. citizens, and begin collecting information about those who are not. The order, however does not specifically mandate patients to answer the question.

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