For more than 50 years, CPT has been the primary medical language used to communicate across health care, enabling seamless processing and advanced analytics for medical procedures and services. The ...

HIPAA only requires breach notification for unsecured PHI (e.g., unencrypted PHI). As such, physicians are encouraged to use appropriate encryption and destruction techniques for PHI, which render PHI ...

The deadline for PLA applications is June 10, 2025. The PLA-TAG will discuss PLA applications on July 24, 2025. The CPT® Editorial Panel will discuss PLA applications at the next virtual meeting on ...

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The RVS Update Committee (RUC) is a volunteer group of 32 physicians and other health care professionals who advise Medicare on how to value a physician's work. Learn more about what the RUC does at ...

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 ...

The AMA provides regulatory clarification to physicians and their care teams in an effort to aid physicians in their day-to-day practice environment. Yearly visits for renewing non-controlled ...

The CPT Editorial Panel approved five new COVID-19 vaccine product codes and one administration code in August 2023. These new COVID-19 codes replaced all previously approved specific COVID-19 product ...

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The CPT Editorial Panel meets three times each year. AMA staff prepares agenda materials for each CPT Editorial Panel meeting.Panel members receive agenda material at least 30 days in advance of each ...

Patients in rural areas are already at higher risk for poor health outcomes. Squeezing the physician practices that care for them is not the answer. Pierre, South Dakota, internist Robert Allison, MD, ...

2025 Medicare physician payment schedule The AMA has prepared acomprehensive summary of the 2025 Medicare Physician Payment Schedule finalrule (PDF). The CY 2025 Medicare conversion factor (CF) will ...