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.

Provider directories for private Medicare Advantage plans are riddled with errors, according to the government's first in-depth review. The results made public Monday, arriving amid the annual ...

I am a senior on Medicare and I have an AARP supplemental insurance plan. I received a letter from my family physician stating that he was not longer accepting Medicare patients unless they were on ...

Bart Klion, 95, and his wife, Barbara, faced a tough choice in January: The upstate New York couple learned that this year they could keep either their private, Medicare Advantage insurance plan — or ...

News that Centene is buying a large medical group is the latest sign that health insurers are engaged in a doctor-buying binge to compliment their Medicare Advantage businesses by owning group ...

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ST. LOUIS (KTVI) – St. Louis physicians are protesting a decision by UnitedHealthcare. The health insurance provider is terminating contracts with certain doctors currently accepting Medicare ...

STUART, Fla. — Dr. Christopher Rao jumped out of his office chair. He'd just learned an elderly patient at high risk of falling was resisting his advice to go to an inpatient rehabilitation facility ...

Next year, seniors with private Medicare Advantage insurance policies whose doctors leave their plan may be able to leave, too, under a new Medicare rule. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, ...

A study found that Google was more accurate than the program’s physician directories. By Austin Frakt If you try to use Medicare Advantage, figuring out which doctors are available (and where) can be ...