[NautiNurse]

The AMA is reduced to holding the coveted copyright for the codes required for billing physician, diagnostic and most hospital services. It is their extremely lucrative bread and butter, the revenue that keeps them in existence. If the feds decided to mandate a different set of codes, the AMA would be out of business.

[caddie]

Yes the CPT codes. They control them. They also have enough money socked away that they can be perpetually communists, and never pay a price.

Kind of like Harvard U.

50 billion in their endowment means they never have to listen to anyone, ever again.