AMA member Myra Moghal is training become a physician. At the AMA Medical Student Advocacy Conference, she learned that means speaking up for patients.

Physician practices are businesses too. Lower pay over two decades increasingly leaves no option other than cut back staff and—in some cases—close. Editor’s note: A short-term funding bill was ...

Health insurers’ use of AI is bringing a new level of concern to the burdensome payer cost-control practice known as prior authorization. In a recently released AMA survey (PDF), 61% of physicians ...

One common element that is sure to be carried over in the transition from a fee-for-service health system to one that supports value-based care arrangements will be the AMA Current Procedural ...

Congress is on the verge of abandoning patients and physicians by adopting a short-term funding deal that fails to address broken Medicare pay system. A short-term funding bill unveiled over the ...

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 ...

The “era of AI” is here. States seek to mandate AI transparency and regulate clinical decision-making and payer use. Tim Storey, the CEO of the National Conference of State Legislatures, has joked ...

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 ...

In 2001, ophthalmologist Ravi D. Goel, MD, joined a practice in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, the town in which he grew up. He loves his hometown and worries about whether he will financially be able to ...

Employment presents challenges to a physician’s professional satisfaction. A doctor employed for his entire career advises how to make it work. With the long-term trend showing ever more physicians ...

Stop grading the doctor on parking or the cafeteria food, says R. John Sawyer, PhD, of Ochsner Health. Here’s how to find and use metrics that matter. As high achievers, physicians have been ...