The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) codes offer doctors and health care professionals a uniform language for coding medical services and procedures to streamline reporting, increase accuracy and ...

University of Iowa Health Care’s patient-centered facility offers a full range of services for musculoskeletal care, including surgery and rehab. To build an orthopedic freestanding hospital, ...

Viruses, malware and hackers pose a threat to patients and physician practices. The AMA has curated resources and tips for physicians and health care staff to protect patient health records and other ...

Garcia: The new COVID variant that's now spreading in the U.S. and other parts of the world is called NB.1.8.1, and it's being referred to as Nimbus. Like a recent COVID variance, Nimbus is a ...

While vape use went down between 2023 and 2024, for the 11th year in a row, e-cigarettes have been the most commonly used tobacco product among middle- and high-school students. In 2024, about 2.25 ...

The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew ™ series gives physicians a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines. For this installment, three ...

Reducing administrative burdens that add hours onto the workday are the biggest hope that physicians have for how augmented intelligence (AI)—often referred to as artificial intelligence—can change ...

Physicians’ use of health care augmented intelligence (AI) for certain tasks nearly doubled in just one year, and enthusiasm for the technology is growing even if some doubts still linger, says a ...

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 ...

Patients with chronic pain continue to face barriers to care, including stigma, regulations limiting medication access, and shortages of pain-management specialists. But progress is being made on the ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a request for information (RFI) on a new proposal to help lower out-of-pocket drug costs for Medicare beneficiaries. The announcement of the ...

Learn more: The AMA is advocating for critical national and state-level prior authorization reforms that must be made to improve prior authorization. At the national level, the AMA strongly supports ...