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 ...

When a health system rolls out new technology that it insists will make physicians’ lives easier, the announcement is typically met with skepticism. But the use of augmented intelligence (AI)—often ...

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 ...

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 ...

Medicare physician payment has dropped 33% since 2001. The influential Medicare Payment Advisory Commission outlines what Congress can do now. What’s the news: The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission ...

As a medical student, do you ever wonder what it’s like to specialize in neurological surgery? Meet Nitin Agarwal, MD, a neurosurgeon and a featured physician in the AMA’s “Shadow Me” Specialty Series ...

Stop grading the doctor on parking or the cafeteria food, says R. John Sawyer, PhD, of Ochsner Health. Here’s how to find and use metrics that matter. As high achievers, physicians have been ...

Supreme Court says 5th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in ruling that the FDA acted in arbitrary and capricious fashion on e-cigarettes. In a win for the nation’s youth—and all Americans’ health—the ...

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 ...

Mississippi patients can rest assured that any care they receive from advanced practice registered nurses will continue to be supervised by physicians. After active opposition from the Mississippi ...

In 2023, 32.3% of live births were cesarean deliveries in the U.S. while 67.7% were vaginal deliveries, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.Certain stressors in patients’ lives, ...

How is medical education changing? What is precision education? What does the AMA give grants for? What is an example of precision education in medicine? Our guests are Sanjay Desai, MD MACP, chief ...