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From a same-day payment cut to AI-run prior authorization in traditional Medicare, MGMA's government affairs team laid out what Washington has in store for physicians next year.

A joint lifetime income annuity and a fixed indexed annuity with an income rider both guarantee income for a surviving spouse, but they differ sharply on flexibility, cost and cash value

The American Medical Association and five specialty societies say casting AI as smarter than physicians diminishes their expertise, a day after the health secretary praised AI second opinions.

A multinational survey of more than 1,900 patients with type 2 diabetes or obesity, presented at the EADV Congress 2026, found nail and scalp changes that weight loss alone did not appear to explain.

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MGMA members described capping Medicare Advantage contracts and favoring commercial patients, while one Texas practice leader reluctantly called Medicare her best payer.

A Monash University study published in Nature Communications finds that an antibiotic resistance gene lets Clostridioides difficile keep forming spores tough enough to withstand hospital-grade cleaning products and high laundry temperatures.

At an MGMA Government Affairs town hall, attendees raised extrapolated audits, employer plans beyond state reach and denials with no reason codes.

Seema Verma, now leader at Oracle, describes the state of the technology for MGMA.