The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about negotiating employment contracts for physicians.

We improve the future by learning from past mistakes, and we ignore those lessons at our peril. Just over a year ago, a devastating ransomware attack on Change Healthcare all but incapacitated our ...

The high court will decide the fate of ACA provision that is estimated to save more than 100,000 lives annually. Whether insurance companies will be required to continue covering the full cost of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stop grading the doctor on parking or the cafeteria food, says R. John Sawyer, PhD, of Ochsner Health. Here’s how to find and use metrics that matter. As high achievers, physicians have been ...

One common element that is sure to be carried over in the transition from a fee-for-service health system to one that supports value-based care arrangements will be the AMA Current Procedural ...

Isaac J. Myers II, MD, shares how he helped bring hundreds of physicians and nonphysician providers together into one medical group—then double it in size. Family physician Isaac J. Myers II, MD, has ...

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 ...

Medical liability insurance premiums continue to march upward. Rates have been on the rise for sixth year in a row and almost every part of the country is seeing rates increase, with some pockets of ...