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, ...

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 ...

The American Cancer Society estimates that there will be about 44,020 new cases of thyroid cancer in this country in 2025, with 31,350 among women. This cancer also is often diagnosed at a younger age ...

On June 20, the American Medical Association (AMA) sent a letter (PDF) to Majority Leader Thune (R-SD) and Minority Leader Schumer (D-NY) outlining our concerns with the Senate version of the One Big ...

This column is part of a series of firsthand physician accounts that detail how AMA Health System Member Program organizations are moving medicine to support patient health and the medical profession.

Fostering continual learning helps grow leaders and leads to retention of physicians. Lee Epstein, DO, witnesses such progress firsthand in his associate medical directors. “These physicians showed ...

A physician’s job in 2025 includes a virtual mountain of red tape—everything from Medicare recordkeeping to prior authorization requirements are on the to-do list—often taking the focus off patient ...

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 ...

When it comes to physician well-being, leaders at the nation’s largest health system say they’ve learned that efforts need to focus on the larger picture, shifting away from simply supporting ...

An AMA STEPS Forward® toolkit details some of the best practices employers should follow to pave the way for physician success, satisfaction and well-being. Its content can help job applicants ...

The physician shortage affects everyone. That’s just one reason the AMA continues to support bipartisan legislative solutions put forth at the federal level such as the Conrad State 30 and Physician ...