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 ...

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 AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about pertussis, treatment for whooping cough symptoms and more.

There are lots of ways that augmented intelligence (AI)—often called artificial intelligence—can help physicians transform health care for the better, from achieving more precise diagnoses to ...

You are likely familiar with the staggering physician shortage projections made by the experts at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). The nation will come up short on physicians ...

Do cold medicines even work? What about other remedies? It depends. Two physicians clarify which cold medicines work and how to find relief. There’s a reason they call it the common cold. It happens a ...

Physician and medical student leaders from all corners of medicine adopted policies critical to ensuring access to reproductive health care and preventing government interference in the practice of ...

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 ...

What are top stressors for doctors? How common is physician burnout? What are the most stressful medical specialties? Is administrative burden in health care fixable? Christine Sinsky, MD, a general ...

Physicians deserve to be paid for the medical care they provide. Learn more with the AMA about the CPT coding errors to avoid. Government and private insurers’ audits have revealed unfortunate cases ...

There are a number of reasons for the projected physician shortage and a number of solutions to the problem have been identified—and they all have one thing in common: the need to get started right ...

The CPT Editorial Panel approved five new COVID-19 vaccine product codes and one administration code in August 2023. These new COVID-19 codes replaced all previously approved specific COVID-19 product ...