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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Access to health care remains a significant challenge for many individuals in the United States. While digital health solutions offer many benefits, the idea that new apps or breakthroughs in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CMS expects to release a more detailed report on MIPS and APMs later this month. Meanwhile, there are some other takeaways from the recently released data: The number of qualifying APM participants ...