AMA-led federation letters oppose federal bill expanding pharmacists’ scope of practice and more in the latest National Advocacy Update.

Learn about existential health care ethics, a field aimed at addressing ethical questions about intersections of human extinction and health care.

Find the agenda, documents and more information for the 2025 SPS Interim Meeting on Nov. 14 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland.

CHICAGO — Innovative work to meet the urgent public health need for streamlined reporting and tracking of COVID-19 vaccinations is presented in today’s release of the 2022 Current Procedural ...

HIPAA’s Breach Notification Rule requires covered entities to notify patients when their unsecured protected heath information (PHI) is impermissibly used or disclosed—or “breached,”—in a way that ...

Know where major national medical and health care organizations stand on LGBTQ health issues with GLMA's Compendium of Health Profession Association LGBT Policy & Position Statements. AMA Journal of ...

The CPT® Editorial Panel is responsible for maintaining the CPT code set. The Panel is authorized by the AMA Board of Trustees to revise, update, or modify CPT codes, descriptors, rules and guidelines ...

Here are some key facts that you should know about how IMGs are remaking American health care—as demonstrated by this collection of information obtained from Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB), ...

The online patient portal is a powerful tool, but can’t replicate a physician visit. Three AMA members share what the portal can do—and what it can’t.

The AMA is working to address the organization’s past discriminatory and harmful practices and its role in creating inequities in health care and medicine.

Physicians are increasingly burdened by excessive “pajama time,” sacrificing personal and family time to complete administrative tasks outside of regular work hours. Exacerbated by the growing demands ...

Shingles affects about one out of three people in the U.S. in their lifetime. Additionally, about 1 million people get shingles each year in this country, according to the Centers for Disease Control ...