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American Medical Association

American Medical Association
FormationMay 7, 1847 (1847-05-07)
TypeProfessional association
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Legal status501(c)(6)
PurposeTo promote the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health.[1]
Headquarters330 North Wabash, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Region served
United States
Membership271,660 as of 2022[2]
CEO
James L. Madara (MD)[3]
President
Jesse M. Ehrenfeld (MD, MPH)[4]
Revenue$493,147,829[5] (2022)
Websiteama-assn.org

The American Medical Association (AMA) is an American professional association and lobbying group of physicians and medical students. This medical association was founded in 1847 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.[6][7] Membership was 271,660 in 2022.[8]

The AMA's stated mission is "to promote the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health."[9] The organization was founded with the goal to raise the standards of medicine in the 19th century primarily through gaining control of education and licensing.[10][11] In the 20th century, the AMA has frequently lobbied to restrict the supply of physicians, contributing to a doctor shortage in the United States.[12][13][14][15] The organization has also lobbied against allowing physician assistants and other health care providers to perform basic forms of health care. The organization has historically lobbied against various forms of government-run health insurance.[10][16]

The Association also publishes the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).[17] The AMA also publishes a list of Physician Specialty Codes which are the standard method in the U.S. for identifying physician and practice specialties.

The American Medical Association is governed by a House of Delegates[18] as well as a board of trustees in addition to executive management.[19] The organization maintains the AMA Code of Medical Ethics, and the AMA Physician Masterfile containing data on United States Physicians.[20] The Current Procedural Terminology coding system was first published in 1966 and is maintained by the Association.[21] It has also published works such as the Guides to Evaluation of Permanent Impairment[22] and established the American Medical Association Foundation and the American Medical Political Action Committee.[23] The current president is Jesse Ehrenfeld, an anesthesiologist affiliated with the Medical College of Wisconsin.[24]

  1. ^ "About the AMA". ama-assn.org. Retrieved 2025-05-20.
  2. ^ "AMA Fact Sheet on its Decade of Membership Growth" (PDF). American Medical Association. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  3. ^ "James L. Madara, MD". American Medical Association. Retrieved 2025-06-08.
  4. ^ "Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, inaugurated as 178th AMA president". American Medical Association. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  5. ^ "IRS Form 990, Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax". ProPublica. 2021.
  6. ^ "AMA (AMA History) 1847 to 1899". American Medical Association. Archived from the original on 9 February 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
  7. ^ Pollack, Andrew (2013-06-18). "AMA Recognizes Obesity as a Disease". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-07-21.
  8. ^ "AMA Fact Sheet on its Decade of Membership Growth" (PDF). ama-assn.org. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  9. ^ "About the American Medical Association - AMA". Ama-assn.org. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  10. ^ a b Marks, Clifford (2022-02-22). "Inside the American Medical Association's Fight Over Single-Payer Health Care". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X.
  11. ^ Starr, Paul (1982). The Social Transformation of American Medicine. Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-07935-0.
  12. ^ "The American Medical Association: Power, Purpose, and Politics in Organized Medicine". Yale Law Journal. 63 (7): 937–1022. 1954. doi:10.2307/793404. JSTOR 793404.
  13. ^ "The US is on the verge of a devastating, but avoidable doctor shortage". Quartz. 2019-07-30. Retrieved 2024-03-09.
  14. ^ "AMA seeks limit on residents to prevent glut of new doctors Shortage of physicians in inner cities continues". baltimoresun.com. 1997. Archived from the original on 2020-05-01. Retrieved 2021-11-18.
  15. ^ "Why doctors in America earn so much". The Economist. 2023. ISSN 0013-0613.
  16. ^ Moore, Colin D. (2025). ""The Voluntary Way is the American Way": The AMA's Campaign for Private Health Insurance, 1945–1950". Journal of Policy History. 37 (3): 199–222. doi:10.1017/S0898030625000041. ISSN 0898-0306.
  17. ^ "About JAMA: JAMA website". Jama.ama-assn.org. Archived from the original on 26 April 2012. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  18. ^ "House of Delegates". American Medical Association. 11 July 2023.
  19. ^ Barr, Donald A. (March 12, 2010). Questioning the Premedical Paradigm: Enhancing Diversity in the Medical Profession a Century after the Flexner Report. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9780801898402.
  20. ^ E. Pamuk (1999). Health United States 1998: With Socioeconomic Status and Health Chart Book.
  21. ^ Cite error: The named reference cpt was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  22. ^ Cite error: The named reference guides was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  23. ^ Ronald Hamowy (January 1, 2008). Government and Public Health in America.
  24. ^ "Board of Trustees". American Medical Association. 6 December 2022. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
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