The AMA has had success advocating improvements to the prior authorization process in state-regulated plans, as well as in health plans regulated by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ...
The U.S. Supreme Court must take up a case that—if a lower-court ruling is allowed to stand—would set back preventive care in the United States and put millions of Americans’ health at risk, says an ...
Catch up with the news and other key moments from the AMA House of Delegates’ meeting in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The 2024 AMA Interim Meeting concluded Nov. 12. The meeting highlights below would ...
Lake Buena Vista, Fla.—About 700 physicians gathered over the last week for the 2024 AMA Interim Meeting here, a stone’s throw from Walt Disney World, which is promoted as “the most magical place on ...
No more take backsies. That is the AMA’s message for payers who force patients and physicians to meet burdensome documentation requirements in order to prior authorize or precertify care and ...
Patients with chronic pain continue to face barriers to care, including stigma, regulations limiting medication access, and shortages of pain-management specialists. But progress is being made on the ...
As a medical student, do you ever wonder what it’s like to specialize in allergy and immunology? Meet Burcin Fraser, MD, an allergist and immunologist and a featured doctor in the AMA’s “Shadow Me” ...
In delivering his penultimate address before the AMA House of Delegates (HOD), outgoing CEO James L. Madara, MD, reviewed the closing remarks that American presidents have offered at the end of their ...
They say awareness is the first step to creating change and it appears that an issue the AMA has been fighting for relentlessly—a permanent fix to the Medicare payment system—is being acknowledged at ...
For many resident physicians, the end-of-year holiday season often means being far from home, working long hours in unfamiliar cities and missing cherished family traditions. While trading festive ...
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 ...
World Medical Association’s ethical research standards modernized on 60th anniversary to address evolving risks, ensure respect for all participants.
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