American Medical Association (AMA) news and information

The American Medical Association, the country's largest professional organization for physicians, is shutting down the news magazine it has published for 55 years.
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In 1989, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act mandated use of the resource-based relative value scale methodology for physician payments under Medicare Part B. It's time for review.
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The American Medical Association has responded sharply to a July 20 Washington Post investigative article that found that the AMA/Specialty Society RVS Update Committee (RUC) has overvalued many procedures by overstating the amount of physicians' time required to perform them. Washington Monthly...
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Unknown to most, a single committee of the AMA, the chief lobbying group for physicians, meets confidentially every year to come up with values for most of the services a doctor performs.
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“I'm sure it's tempting for those who have stood against reform and progress from the beginning to see this as a chance to rip Obamacare apart. The irony of objecting to the delay of a program you've been trying to stop is, no doubt, lost on this room.”—Rep. Jim...
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A group of healthcare providers have recommended strategies to reduce five commonly overused and sometimes unnecessary medical treatments or interventions, such as the use of antibiotics for viral upper respiratory infections and early elective deliveries.
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Dr. Nogah Haramati, a radiologist based in New York, recently cancelled a meeting with a vendor—one of the many equipment manufacturers and software developers who routinely offer free dinners and lectures to ply their wares.
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When he heard that the CMS had redesigned its Physician Compare website, Dr. Douglas Denham checked it out.
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This year's American Medical Association House of Delegates meeting featured a renewed sense of collegiality, no noticeable net change in the number of bearded delegates, a recognition of ties between current delegates and momentous health policy events from 50 years ago, and—speaking of...
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The annual American Medical Association House of Delegates meeting basically consists of several days of doctors talking for hours on end. While pontification is often the order of the day, a few delegates manage to crack wise.
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