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.

Inflammation of the heart sounds scary—and it can be. Lauren Weber, MD, a cardiologist at Confluence Health, discusses what to know about myocarditis. Once considered a rare and mysterious heart ...

People are driven to choose a career in medicine not only because of their passion for the art and science of healing, but their deep capacity for care. However, the bureaucracy, systematic ...

New Mexico’s governor vetoes bill that would have set a “dangerous precedent for allowing optometrists to perform surgical procedures.” The AMA is fighting scope creep. The AMA is applauding New ...

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 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 ...

An impermissible use or disclosure of PHI is presumed to be a breach unless the covered entity demonstrates that there is a “low probability” that the PHI has been compromised. A physician must take ...

In the big picture of health care policy, it is impossible to overstate how profoundly Medicare and Medicaid have contributed to the health, safety and security of our nation in the 60 years since ...

As drafted, provisions in the budget-reconciliation bill passed by the House of Representatives would make medical school more expensive. The AMA is deeply concerned that provisions of the 2025 budget ...

Physicians face a $1 billion across-the-board annual Medicare pay cut unless way-too-high projections for use of the G2211 billing code are adjusted. What’s the news: The cut in physicians’ 2024 ...

In a fiery address, outgoing AMA President Bruce A. Scott, MD, urged physicians to be unrelenting in their efforts to fix a broken U.S. health system. In his final address to the House of Medicine, ...

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 ...