The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about cancer in people under 50, syphilis and more.

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 ...

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 ...

Is AI good for health care? How are doctors using artificial intelligence? What is AI used for in medicine? What percentage of doctors are using AI? Do doctors trust AI? Our guest Margaret Lozovatsky, ...

Through innovation, prevention and AI-driven care, the Northern California medical group improves outcomes, leads nation in value-based care delivery. For more than eight decades, The Permanente ...

Ageism affects physicians in some universal ways, but also some unique ways. Learn how to protect older doctors for everyone’s benefit. At first, the physician noticed that her opinions “were ...