The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about AMA's advocacy efforts for 2025.

This resource is part of the AMA's Debunking Regulatory Myths series, supporting AMA's practice transformation efforts to provide physicians and their care teams with resources to reduce guesswork and ...

Under Dr. Aletha Maybank’s direction and guidance, the AMA has become a relevant national voice on equity in medicine and an important ally to organizations that have long been committed to this work.

The AMA and Illinois State Medical Society file federal lawsuit to stop MultiPlan from orchestrating unfair payment rates that impede access to care. What’s the news: Aiming to stop unlawful ...

Mazen Elatrache, MD, of Henry Ford Health, feels gastroenterology is a satisfying field because it combines cognitive medicine with complex procedures. As a medical student, do you ever wonder what it ...

Psychiatrist Andrea DeSimone, DO, of Bayhealth, details the nine main symptoms that characterize depression and the treatments that can help. It creeps in quietly, often unnoticed, until the weight ...

Congress failed to stop a fifth consecutive Medicare pay cut, but on telehealth, equity and more, CMS heeds physicians’ advice. That failure extends “a devastating decline in Medicare physician ...

AMA member John R. Corker, MD, has been with a group practice for eight years and is now an owner. What led him there? Knowing what he wanted. For residents in their penultimate year of training and ...

Baptist Health virtual work guru Reggie Lyell, MD, leads an effort to help doctors returning to work focus on patients instead of clicks. As a family physician for nearly three decades before taking ...

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 ...

Another year, another cut to the Medicare payments needed to keep physicians and their practices going. Congress must turn toward long-term reform. “The continuing resolution utterly fails to address ...

The AMA’s “Overdose Epidemic Report 2024” notes significant policy achievements as part of physicians’ efforts to end the nation’s drug-related overdose and death epidemic. The AMA also welcomes the ...