The American Medical Association (AMA) unveiled a new Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code for a potential third dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. The AMA chose to publish the code in...
AMA, along with dozens of healthcare organizations, voiced support for COVID-19 vaccine mandates for healthcare workers in a recent announcement. Cases are increasing across the country as the highly...
AMA raised concerns over Congress’s “indifference” to the incoming pay cuts and financial instability of the Medicare physician payment system in a recent letter to congressional...
The solution to alternative payment model (APM) success is implementing patient-centered models developed by front-line physicians, according to Jack Resneck, Jr., MD, president-elect of the American...
Payers should temporarily suspend prior authorization requirements during public health emergencies (PHEs), according to a new policy from the American Medical Association (AMA).
Physicians have faced...
National healthcare spending continued to grow right before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, increasing by 4.6 percent in 2019 to a total of $3.8 trillion, the American Medical Association (AMA)...
A recent survey from the American Medical Association (AMA) evaluated the challenges and roadblocks of prior authorization (PA) for physicians and patients three years after a coalition of industry...
The shift away from private practice and toward large, hospital-owned practices has accelerated, according to a new analysis from the American Medical Association (AMA).
AMA reported that less than...
The American Medical Association (AMA) has created unique Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes for the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine and its administration.
The vaccine from Novavax Inc. has yet...
Most physicians still faced a high prior authorization burden despite treating a surge of positive COVID-19 cases this winter, the American Medical Association (AMA) reports.
In a survey of 1,000...
Medical liability insurance premiums have begun an upwards trend after remaining relatively steady over the past ten years, according to a new American Medical Association (AMA) analysis that...
As Congress gets ready to pass another COVID-19 stimulus package this week, physicians are once again calling on lawmakers to consider extending the moratorium of the Medicare sequester in a bid to...
Medicare spending on physician services decreased by $9.4 billion, or 19 percent, in the first half of 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new analysis from the American Medical...
The American Medical Association (AMA) has added new codes to the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set to account for the COVID-19 vaccine candidate from Janssen Pharmaceutica, a division...
In anticipation of an emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the American Medical Association (AMA) has created Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes for...
The healthcare industry’s leading medical associations are urging President Donald Trump to share COVID-19 data and other critical information related to the virus with the Biden transition team...
The American Medical Association (AMA) has added several COVID-19 vaccine codes to the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set so providers can report immunizations for the novel...
Physician practice viability is under threat as physicians continue to see fewer patients in-person, according to a new report from the American Medical Association (AMA).
The report based on findings...
Major provider groups are asking Congress to extend a congressionally-enacted moratorium on the application of the Medicare sequester cuts into 2021.
The American Hospital Association, American...
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the American Medical Association (AMA) is adding two new codes to the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set. The codes are for multi-virus tests that...
