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 ...

The AMA’s Electronic Health Record Use Research Grant Program began in 2019 to identify patterns in EHR use that may contribute to physician burnout and detract from patient care. Since the program’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For resident physicians, moving from internship to PGY-2 represents a significant change in responsibilities and expectations. PGY-2s move into a supervisory role and are often the most senior ...

Furthering the goal of ensuring that new digital health technologies are an asset to physicians and not a burden, the AMA will collaborate with the standards-development organization, Health Level ...

Patients in rural areas are already at higher risk for poor health outcomes. Squeezing the physician practices that care for them is not the answer. Pierre, South Dakota, internist Robert Allison, MD, ...

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 ...