The Odessa American is the leading source of local news, information, entertainment and sports for the Permian Basin.

Hard to follow the dizzying array of developments out of Washington over the past year? Here are our answers to your pressing ...

There’s good news for anyone who made a wrong choice in selecting a Medicare Advantage plan during the annual enrollment period.

Increasingly, patients are caught in the middle as insurer breakups with health providers become more frequent.

Enrollment for health insurance under the U.S. Affordable Care Act dipped to 15.6 million for 2026, Mehmet Oz, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator, said on Tuesday, from ...

Explore PECOS, the Provider Enrollment, Chain, and Ownership System, a streamlined online tool for healthcare providers to manage Medicare enrollments.

Health insurance costs are expected to rise in 2026 as ACA subsidies expire and new rules take effect. Here's what enrollees ...

Representatives Tom Kean Jr., Chris Smith, and Jeff Van Drew, and their allies in D.C., have a choice: continue to stand by or be part of the solution ...

President Trump on Friday said that he would soon schedule a meeting with executives of the nation's top health insurance ...

The U.S. has the most expensive health care system in the world by far. The projected increase in the number of uninsured people over the next 10 years could result in even higher costs, as fewer ...

The Alvin Sun is Brazoria County’s first and oldest newspaper and was established on August 8, 1890 as the Alvin News. In 1892, it became the Alvin Sun and was published weekly for many years.