The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about the latest in bird flu and policies from the 2024 AMA Annual Meeting.
AMA creates tools and resources so physicians can focus on their patients and keep their practices open.
AMA Board of Trustees Chair Willie Underwood III, MD, MSc, MPH, outlines what health care organizations should do to reduce physician burnout.
Take a look at the crucial role of International Medical Graduates (IMGs) in our nation's health care landscape and how the AMA is working to support IMGs.
Precision education is a developing concept and one of four new focus areas for the AMA ChangeMedEd® initiative. Find out more.
Find information on commissions during the recruitment year.
The road to Match Day 2025 has many milestones. This guide offers insight on what to do at each step of the physician residency-selection process.
With high medical student-loan debt, doctors entering Indian Health Service face low pay. AMA calls for improving their access to loan forgiveness.
Licensing exams place big burdens on resident physicians. AMA calls for changes to Step 3 and COMLEX Level 3 to help save residents time and money.
AMA-supported prior authorization bill reintroduced in Congress and more in the latest Advocacy Update spotlight.
AMA comments on 2025 Medicare hospital inpatient payment proposed rule and more in the latest Medicare Payment Reform Advocacy Update.
The 2024 International Conference on Physician Health will be held Oct. 17–Oct. 19, 2024. Learn more.
This two-day boot camp Sept. 23-24, 2024, is designed for clinical and operational change agents looking to eliminate unnecessary work and free up more time to focus on what matters most–patient care.
Review the list of candidates to serve as AMA officers, on the Board of Trustees and councils.
Review the reports and resolutions submitted for consideration at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the AMA House of Delegates.
Download PDFs of reports on this topic from the Council on Medical Education presented during the AMA Interim and Annual Meetings.
See how the CCB recommends changes to the AMA Constitution and Bylaws and assists in reviewing the rules, regulations and procedures of AMA sections.
Read highlights from the 2024 SPS Annual Meeting.
View candidates for upcoming elections for the International Medical Graduates Section Governing Council.
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Read about the process for changes to the CPT® codes and the role of the CPT Advisory Committee.
Prior authorization (PA) programs create burdens and barriers to the delivery of necessary patient care. Discover new findings and insights on prior authorization from the AMA's annual prior authorization survey.
Cancer treatments can be awful, but so is having to navigate prior authorization to get oncologist-recommended care. Learn more with the AMA.
The time-wasting, care-delaying process of prior authorization contributes to physician burnout. Learn how the AMA tackles prior authorization.
Consult this handy glossary to better grasp the frustrating cost-control practice and learn how the AMA leads the charge to fix prior authorization.
United Healthcare and Cigna appear to move in the right direction. Learn how the AMA is working on all fronts to right size prior authorization.
AMA Immediate Past President Jack Resneck Jr., MD, explains how the cost-control practice delays care. Patients can help the AMA tackle prior authorization.
Physicians with a 90% prior authorization approval rate in Medicare Advantage would be spared the care-delaying rigmarole. Learn more with the AMA.
The powerful House Ways and Means Committee has advanced provisions to overhaul the prior-authorization process that delays patients’ access to care.
Bipartisan congressional majority presses CMS to implement proposed changes within Medicare Advantage and go further to fix prior authorization.
Concerns over CMS increasing prior authorization requirements and more in the latest National Advocacy Update.
