Yuma Hospital Hit With Unpaid $20 Million Bill for Taking Care of Illegal Immigrants

The Yuma Sector of the southern border has been one of the busiest sectors for illegal crossings and as a result, Yuma Regional Medical Center has over $20 million in unpaid expense due to giving care to people who get injured or sick making the journey to the United States.

“People always think they’re coming in with coughs and colds, but that’s not really the case,” President Dr. Robert Transchel told “Fox & Friends” on Friday. “You have individuals come in that need dialysis, that need heart surgery, that need cardiac catheterization. We’ve had women come into our labor and delivery unit that have delivered infants that need to be in the neonatal ICU for sometimes months at a time.”

As of now, Transchel says neither Arizona or the U.S. federal government is offering to pay for the services the hospital has provided.

“It’s an unsustainable business model to have your expenses increased by an external entity consistently and increasingly without any concomitant revenue source,” he explained.

So far this fiscal year, which started in October, the Yuma Sector’s Border Patrol has encountered over 25,000 illegal immigrants. An overwhelming majority are not from Mexico or the Northern Triangle countries in Latin America. The Yuma Sector saw a spike this past week as illegal immigrants entered the U.S. thinking Title 42 had been lifted, when in fact it has been extended pending a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court.

MASSIVE: By far the biggest migrant line I’ve ever seen in Yuma. While you were sleeping, cartels smuggled several big groups of migrants from Russia all the way to Peru into the US , now hundreds await to be processed as Title 42 policy is in limbo @DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/Z2iES1Vx2C

— Jorge Ventura Media (@VenturaReport) December 22, 2022

AZ: This young woman from Cuba asked to stay anonymous—She tells me they crossed today because a policy (#Title42) was ending & the border would be open. She tells me family/friends told her she would be safe/taken care of here—That food and medical would be provided in the U.S. pic.twitter.com/NP4IsXdZZJ

— Ali Bradley (@AliBradleyTV) December 21, 2022