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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Payers, health care organizations and the health care delivery system have a nearly $5 billion vested interest in making changes that can help reduce physician burnout, a study shows. Primary care ...

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 ...

That is how many patients rely on Medicare to access physician care. After fifth straight year of cuts, Congress must address systemic problems. In a wide-ranging talk with reporter Kelly Hooper of ...

Exclusive AMA data shows doctor burnout has fallen below 45%, but the job isn’t done. Health systems continue to work with the AMA to reduce burnout. After years marked by stress, exhaustion and ...

As chief wellness officer (CWO) for Lehigh Valley Health Network, Amy A. Jibilian, MD, shares the need to reduce stigma and ease administrative burdens. Physician burnout remains one of the most ...