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 AMA is fighting for physicians, and as the physician’s powerful ally the AMA is focused on addressing the issues important to doctors so they can focus on what matters most—patients. The AMA’s ...

As the leader in physician well-being, the AMA is cutting burdens and setting strong guardrails to protect doctors from retaliatory actions. Forward-looking health systems across the country are ...

AMA survey shows physicians warming up to AI, but there’s still need to ensure such tools are developed and used responsibly and transparently. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized ...

An impermissible use or disclosure of PHI is presumed to be a breach unless the covered entity demonstrates that there is a “low probability” that the PHI has been compromised. A physician must take ...

Inflammation of the heart sounds scary—and it can be. Lauren Weber, MD, a cardiologist at Confluence Health, discusses what to know about myocarditis. Once considered a rare and mysterious heart ...

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 ...

In a fiery address, outgoing AMA President Bruce A. Scott, MD, urged physicians to be unrelenting in their efforts to fix a broken U.S. health system. In his final address to the House of Medicine, ...

For Felisha Gonzalez, MD, answering equity questions wasn’t enough. Through an AMA fellowship, she’s learning to drive action in policy and practice. Felisha Gonzalez, MD, wasn’t just interested in ...

Such burdens fuel physician dissatisfaction and burnout, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Here is a road map for doctors and compliance professionals to cut the regulatory thicket. More than 600 ...