The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about pertussis, treatment for whooping cough symptoms and more.

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. AMA membership ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a win for pregnant patients and their physicians, an Ohio appellate court has overturned a jury verdict that would have sent a woman to prison after she disclosed that she used illicit drugs during ...

AMA/Special Society RVS Update (RUC) process calendar (PDF)* *This is a calendar for items that require review through the RUC process and inclusion in the annual CMS proposed rule. Only code change ...

It had been a challenge to provide real-time access to mental health care to patients at Henry Ford Health System—a member of the AMA Health System Program—regardless of whether a behavioral health ...

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 ...

Primary care physicians typically spend 16 minutes of each vacation day on the EHR. Health systems are trying to reverse that trend. A physician’s most intrusive, unwelcome and demanding travel ...