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 ...

The Division of Economic and Health Policy Research conducts independent research to support AMA federal, state and private sector advocacy agendas. One of the division’s most significant efforts is ...

Payers, health care organizations and the health care delivery system have a nearly $5 billion vested interest in making changes that can help reduce physician burnout, a study shows. Primary care ...

The CPT “vaccine early release schedule” is now known as the “immunization early release” schedule and includes vaccines/toxoids, immune globulins and serum or recombinant products. Two new seasonal ...

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 ...

International medical graduates should submit applications to a minimum of 25 programs to have the best chance of being matched to a residency program. Applicants must register with the National ...

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 ...

Blindness, encephalitis, diarrhea and associated dehydration, ear infections, and severe pneumonia are known complications. Before vaccination, measles was responsible for 48,000 hospitalizations ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic began, temporary waivers of telehealth coverage and payment regulations boomed at the state and federal levels to meet the increased demand for virtual medical care. To keep ...

Despite mask mandates expiring in states that had the strictest laws and the majority of Americans less conscious about practicing physical distancing, about 4 million Medicare patients received ...

There’s movement in Congress to further extend the regulatory flexibilities initiated as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic that have allowed telehealth to become more widespread in medicine.

There are lots of ways that augmented intelligence (AI)—often called artificial intelligence—can help physicians transform health care for the better, from achieving more precise diagnoses to ...