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Atrial fibrillation (AFib) causes your heart to beat faster than it should. Learn the signs and risk, how AFib is treated and when to talk to your physician.
Find out about changes to the codes for maternity care services, which includes separate codes for antepartum care, labor management, delivery and postpartum care.
Review the most frequently asked questions about how to prepare for the CPT® 2027 Maternity Care Services code changes.
A framework for educators and administrators who create programs for coaching medical students—view videos, purchase books or download directories of workshop participants.
Find how the AMA ChangeMedEd initiative focuses on increased diversity and an improved sense of belonging in medical education.
Each month, the AMA Medical Student Outreach Program (MSOP) identifies one event to highlight as the Section Involvement Grant Event of the Month. Find out more.
AMA member Darren Gitelman, MD, says the lack of cures is a challenge, but being able to provide answers to difficult questions is a major reward.
Resident physicians at LSU School of Medicine want to use child patients’ creativity to establish a connection.
Before you sign that first physician contract, learn the six moves that can boost your compensation, lifestyle and career development.
The AMA has declared drug shortages to be an urgent public health crisis. Stay informed and access resources to address the impacts on practice.
Physicians can get involved in advocacy efforts alongside the AMA. Learn more and get involved now.
Join AMA for a panel discussion on how primary care physicians and ob-gyns can approach sexual health conversations with patients. Learn more and register.
In this AMA STEPS Forward® Innovation Academy webinar, discover how healthcare organizations are transforming revenue cycle management for value-based care.
Find information on submitting resolutions and reports for the upcoming interim meeting to the AMA HOD Online Reference Committees.
Find information on the organizations that make up the Federation of Medicine—including state, county and national medical specialty societies.
The Council on Long Range Planning and Development (CLRPD) works on projects based on actions of the AMA House of Delegates or Board of Trustees.
The council investigates general ethical conditions and all matters pertaining to the relations of physicians to one another or to the public, and make recommendations to the House of Delegates or the constituent associations through the issuance of reports.
Take on a leadership role in the RFS and make an impact on issues facing residents and fellows, patients and the medical profession.
The AMA Women Physicians Section (WPS) Inspiration Award honors and acknowledges physicians who have offered their support throughout the professional careers of fellow physicians, residents and students.
AMA participates in health care conferences and events held throughout the U.S.A. as well as internationally.
The AMA Center for Optimal Health Outcomes has partnered with Morehouse School of Medicine’s Satcher Health Leadership Institute (SHLI) to create and launch the Medical Justice in Advocacy Fellowship.
Since patients rely on network directories to locate providers, accurate information is critical. Here’s how the AMA is making network directories both accurate and accessible.
Patients will be protected from unexpected medical costs and physicians will have a process to challenge inadequate out-of-network insurance payment.
Some independently practicing physicians have been wrongly excluded. These search functions should operate in a fair, equal and unbiased fashion.
Standards respond to concerns that hospital websites and search functions may selectively omit some physicians.
FTC & non-compete agreements, rules for Medicare Advantage networks and more in the latest AMA national health care advocacy news.
Medicare Advantage keeps growing, but beneficiaries face shrinking networks, networks suddenly dropping their doctors and a false illusion of choice.
The AMA is working to support patient protections from unanticipated medical bills.
Everyone agrees patients should be kept out of the middle of billing disputes. These other policy fixes will help ensure that patients can get care when they need it.
Narrow payer provider networks are a big driver of unanticipated out-of-network care, AMA Trustee Bobby Mukkamala, MD, tells a key House committee.
Narrow, inadequate physician networks can mean unanticipated costs for patients. Here’s what doctors should know, and what Congress should keep in mind.
