Innovative Medicare program set to expire at year’s end, but the evidence backs extending it to help patients recover in the comfort of home.
Also known as peripheral vascular disease, this condition causes leg pain, cramping and numbness. Charles Leithead, MD, of Ochsner Health shares more.
The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about how one physician leader's work is reducing in-basket burden.
Understand the evolving field of health systems science and acquire the necessary tools and skills to successfully share this approach with medical students.
The goal of the Reimagining Residency grant program is to transform residency training to best address the workplace needs of our current and future health care system.
Virginia Skiba, MD, of Henry Ford Health, started her career in neurology but switched to sleep medicine after about a decade. Find out why.
M4s can gain insight on life in a physician residency program by asking current residents about scheduling, culture, work-life balance and more.
To perform at your best on the night shift, resident physicians should follow the evidence on what works. One tip: Drink your java at the right time.
Resident physicians must quickly absorb huge knowledge chunks—and care for patients. You won’t know it all, so here’s how to move forward.
Learn about the current state of competition in health insurance markets across the U.S. and review in-depth analysis on market concentration.
Discover the AMA's position on health insurance mergers and why the AMA believes fewer insurance carriers undermine physician practices and harm patient care.
ChangeMedEd® is a national conference that brings together leaders and innovators to accelerate change in medical education across the continuum. Learn more.
Build a framework for the implementation of AI in practice during this seven-month shared learning collaborative launching April 2025.
Download PDFs of the proceedings from the 2024 Annual Meeting of the House of Delegates.
Review the list of candidates to serve as AMA officers, on the Board of Trustees and councils.
Apply for a leadership position by submitting the required documentation by the deadline.
Download PDFs of reports on this topic from the Council on Medical Education presented during the AMA Interim and Annual Meetings.
Find the agenda PDF, documents and more for the 2024 APS Interim Meeting on Nov. 8 at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort, Orlando, Florida.
Find the agenda, documents and more information for the 2024 WPS Interim Meeting on Nov. 8 at Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort in Orlando, Florida.
Find a calendar listing the upcoming meetings of the CPT Editorial Panel.
In the news: Half U.S. adults eligible for semaglitude, low vaccination rates for respiratory season, 1 in 10 has high cholesterol and more.
Medicare is a complicated subject which can be daunting for patients and physicians alike. Here's how the AMA can help your practice be prepared for medicare related issues.
Our nation stepped into a new era for health care last week when it adopted legislation to eliminate Medicare’s sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula. Here are five ways our health care system will begin to look different.
The sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula in the Medicare payments system is no more. Thanks to new legislation, the era of uncertainty for Medicare beneficiaries and their physicians has ended.
The AMA celebrates the U.S. Senate's vote to pass Medicare delivery and payment reforms to help our nation's seniors and improve the health of the nation.
Electronic health record (EHR) system may be able to send and receive information to other EHRs. However, the ability for information to be exchanged, incorporated and presented in a contextual manner still is lacking, physicians told the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
CMS' Office of the Actuary's (OACT) report on the estimated effects of H.R. 2 is illogical, flawed and dangerous for patient access to high quality health care.
We were so close to achieving real reform with a bill that would permanently eliminate the flawed sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula—but the Senate was unable to clear some procedural hurdles in time and left for recess before taking action.
A bipartisan bill to eliminate the sustainable growth rate (SGR) is waiting for the U.S. Senate to take action. Here’s what physicians need to know about the Medicare payment cuts.
The AMA today called on CMS to address the challenges physicians are facing with the Meaningful Use program before moving on to the next stage.
After the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill to eliminate the flawed Medicare sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula, the U.S. Senate delayed giving its final approval to the bill.
