The BHI Compendium PDF serves as a tool to sustain behavioral health integration to achieve the goal of enabling timely access to equitable, whole-person care.
The AMA's how-to guides focus on practical treatment strategies for patients’ behavioral, mental and physical health needs.
Years of research show the same story in state after state, regardless of their scope of practice laws. Dive deeper with the AMA.
The open process for adopting revisions to the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set highlights AMA’s role as a convener of digital health experts.
Precision education is a developing concept and one of four new focus areas for the AMA ChangeMedEd® initiative. Find out more.
Visit our online community or participate in medical education webinars.
PGY-1 Whitney Sambhariya, MD, PhD, tells students to embrace standardized patient encounters, and offers thoughts on what she would do differently.
In this episode of Making the Rounds, learn how those considering a transfer should approach that decision.
Physicians’ spending tends to creep upward after finishing residency or fellowship. Learn with the AMA about how to avert that pattern.
Medical staff bylaws can be make or break to a young physician’s hospital employment experience. Learn more with the AMA.
Physicians can get involved in advocacy efforts alongside the AMA. Learn more and get involved now.
New AMA survey indicates physicians still feeling adverse impact from Change Healthcare cyberattack and more in the latest Advocacy Update spotlight.
Medical students who join the AMA enjoy exclusive member benefits and perks to help them personally and professionally on their road to residency. Find out more.
Celebrate your grad’s incredible accomplishment by activating their AMA membership. Learn how.
Review the reports and resolutions submitted for consideration at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the AMA House of Delegates.
Download and review the PDF list of pending reports from the Board and the councils, and submit comments and feedback.
See how the CCB recommends changes to the AMA Constitution and Bylaws and assists in reviewing the rules, regulations and procedures of AMA sections.
Apply for a leadership position by submitting the required documentation by the deadline.
Find highlights about WPS activities and how its members advocate for patients and women in the medical profession.
AMA members age 65 and above are eligible to vote in the Senior Physicians Section (SPS) Governing Council election in April.
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.
Medicare claims review is the process by which Medicare patients are paid for by the government. Learn more about this process with the latest news, policy coverage, and statements from the AMA.
The case concerns qualifying a patient’s care under the Medicare hospice benefit. At issue is a physicians’ ability to exercise their clinical judgment in certifying a patient’s life expectancy is less than six months.
Two new reports with information on 2015 cost and quality data indicate which physicians or practices will see related Medicare payment adjustments in 2017.
Physicians who provide services under Medicare and other federal health care programs won’t face the possibility of civil lawsuits being brought against them for an unlimited period, thanks to a recent decision by the Supreme Court of the United States.
The AMA is concerned by CMS' announcement that a third of large physician groups will face a penalty under the Value-based Modifier program (VBM) in 2015.
A “bounty-hunter” Medicare program that takes back payments from physicians must be overhauled, physicians told the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in a letter, pointing to a two-year backlog of appeals and prohibitive expenses that result from excessive audits. ...
Following a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announcement of a proposal to conduct audits of physicians and other eligible professionals who received incentive payments under the Medicare Physician Quality Reporting System and ePrescribing programs, the AMA called on the agency to abandon its plans because of numerous implementation problems.
Expensive claim denials and unexpected payment adjustments that stem from the hundreds of proprietary claim edits individual health insurers create behind closed doors could become a thing of the past in a few short years, thanks to an initiative underway in Colorado.
Physicians and hospitals will get a short reprieve from Medicare's recovery audit contractors, CMS recently announced.
A federal court case is shining light on the growing problem of inappropriately classifying hospital patients as “observation status” in an effort to cut down Medicare costs.