The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about the challenges physicians face and what's next for the AMA.

For more than 50 years, CPT has been the primary medical language used to communicate across health care, enabling seamless processing and advanced analytics for medical procedures and services. The ...

The Division of Economic and Health Policy Research conducts independent research to support AMA federal, state and private sector advocacy agendas. One of the division’s most significant efforts is ...

The RVS Update Committee (RUC) is a volunteer group of 32 physicians and other health care professionals who advise Medicare on how to value a physician's work. Learn more about what the RUC does at ...

AMA strongly backs move tying physician payment to 75% of MEI, but Medicaid provisions have considerable negative impact for vulnerable patients. The massive budget package passed by the House of ...

Blindness, encephalitis, diarrhea and associated dehydration, ear infections, and severe pneumonia are known complications. Before vaccination, measles was responsible for 48,000 hospitalizations ...

Andrea DeSimone, DO, a psychiatrist at Bayhealth, shares how doctors can better identify and treat major depressive disorder and seasonal depression. Major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the most ...

CMS opens 2025 MIPS exception/hardship application, now allows for exemption from cost category and administrative claims measures CMS opens 2025 MIPS exception/hardship application, now allows for ...

AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians, residents, medical students and patients. From private practice and health system leaders to scientists and public ...

Is AI good for health care? How are doctors using artificial intelligence? What is AI used for in medicine? What percentage of doctors are using AI? Do doctors trust AI? Our guest Margaret Lozovatsky, ...

Ageism affects physicians in some universal ways, but also some unique ways. Learn how to protect older doctors for everyone’s benefit. At first, the physician noticed that her opinions “were ...

Student-loan interest adds up—quickly. According to the U.S. Department of Education, a $10,000 loan at 6.8% interest accrues about $1.86 in interest each day. With resident physicians graduating ...