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.

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 ...

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 ...

As a medical student, do you ever wonder what it’s like to specialize in emergency medicine? Meet Sam Mossallam, MD, an emergency medicine physician and a featured doctor in the AMA’s “Shadow Me” ...

The AMA is urging the new administration to reduce or eliminate some of the regulatory burdens and pain points in reporting requirements that drive physician burnout and complicate patient care ...

Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group delivers care that helps patients live six to eight years longer and reduces death from sepsis, stroke and cancer. Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group (MAPMG) ...

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 ...

Vaccination Humans are the only natural hosts of measles virus, making it a virus that can potentially be eliminated. CDC recommends two doses of measles-containing vaccine routinely for children, ...

Physicians who have made their mark with health equity research detail what medical students and residents should keep in mind to succeed. For AMA member Tracey L. Henry, MD, a summer job conducting ...

AMA’s Christine Sinsky, MD, retires after a pioneering career advancing physician well-being, redesigning care and leading burnout-prevention efforts. For more than four decades, Christine Sinsky, MD, ...

Staying in the organization where you trained can be the right fit. Learn more with Bayhealth family physician Paulina McCabe, DO. With one child already and another on the way, there was a lot on the ...