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 CPT® Editorial Panel ensures that CPT® codes reflect the latest medical care available to patients. Learn more about these codes at AMA.

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 ...

CMS opens 2025 MIPS exception/hardship application, now allows for exemption from cost category and administrative claims measures CMS opens 2025 MIPS exception/hardship application, now allows for ...

Ellen Mateo, MD, of Confluence Health, says a rewarding aspect of being a pediatrician is witnessing sick children recover in a nurturing environment. As a medical student, do you ever wonder what ...

AMA welcomes effort to address decades of falling payment while detailing how proposed Medicaid changes will lead to coverage interruptions. The AMA strongly supports moves in Congress that would ...

A bipartisan bill backed by the AMA would help Medicare patients avoid unnecessary care delays by requiring appropriate specialty physicians to review. What’s the news: Only specialty board-certified ...

Student-loan interest adds up—quickly. According to the U.S. Department of Education, a $10,000 loan at 6.8% interest accrues about $1.86 in interest each day. With resident physicians graduating ...

The goal is to foster learning opportunities across the Northern California health system to create a “lifelong home” for physicians and other health professionals. As the threat of a doctor shortage ...

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 ...

The latest research confirms that physicians and health systems can make a measurable, lasting, lifesaving difference by following an evidence-based approach called the Zero Suicide model. Of the six ...

Exclusive AMA data shows that while job stress is easing and satisfaction is rising, each physician specialty requires targeted support. After years of rising, physician burnout rates are showing ...