With the U.S. Supreme Court set to rule on two lawsuits seeking to undo affirmative action for institutions of higher learning, including medical schools, the House of Delegates adopted several ...

The time-wasting, care-delaying, insurance company cost-control process known as prior authorization has gone from a rarely employed tool to discourage use of extremely pricey interventions to a form ...

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 ...

There is a common equation used to show health care value: Value equals quality plus patient experience divided by cost. The AMA helps physicians build a better future for medicine, advocating in the ...

In today’s AMA Update, Jeremy Cauwels, MD, chief physician at Sanford Health, and Kenric Maynor, MD, MBA, chair of the Medicine Institute at Geisinger Health System, join us to discuss innovation in ...

One person dies every 34 seconds in the U.S. from heart disease with about 697,000 deaths in 2020. On top of that, heart disease cost the U.S. about $229 billion each year from 2017 to 2018. This ...

Emergency physician John Paul Sánchez, MD, MPH, was drawn to medicine because he had witnessed health inequity in his community. Growing up in the 1980s during the HIV/AIDS crisis, Dr. Sánchez ...

In today’s AMA Update, AMA Chief Experience Officer Todd Unger chats about how medical students can influence policy with Reilly Bealer—a medical student at the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine at ...

After helping state medical associations and national specialty societies defeat more than 100 bills to inappropriately expand nonphysicians’ scope of practice in 2023, the AMA is again relentlessly ...

The COVID-19 pandemic caused unprecedented strain on health systems, and an unwelcomed disruption to medical training. Still, even as they were sidelined from patient interaction, medical students ...

AI and its potential implications to reshape the world for better—or worse—is the hot topic among thought leaders in every industry and was in the spotlight at CES, the powerful tech event held in Las ...

UCHealth in Colorado only allows a test result to go to one physician or nonphysician provider so there’s no confusion over who will handle it. Reclaim time in your day to do more of what you love.