The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about the summer COVID strain for 2025 and more.

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 ...

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 CPT Editorial Panel meets three times each year. AMA staff prepares agenda materials for each CPT Editorial Panel meeting.Panel members receive agenda material at least 30 days in advance of each ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reducing physician burnout involves many strategies, but the most common solution has been to adopt new technology that improves efficiency and eases doctors’ administrative burdens. Examples include ...