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Nearly 80,000

Number of undocumented patients who were treated at Texas hospitals from December through February at a cost of $329 million, about 2 percent of all patient visits during the period, according to data released by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. Health care advocates say the data excludes critical context, such as how much of that cost is actually paid by undocumented patients or how it compares to total unpaid hospital care costs.