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Amazon is increasing its efforts to boost its healthcare presence. Here are eight recent healthcare moves from the company for ASC leaders to know:

Physician compensation reached its highest level in two years, driven primarily by increased productivity, according to Kaufman Hall's "Physician Flash Report" published May 2.

For the first time in Medscape's 11 years of physician compensation reports, all physician specialties reported an increase in pay, with otolaryngologists and gastroenterologists seeing the largest pay increases by percentage.

Rome, Ga.-based Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center recently performed its 500th surgery using the Da Vinci Xi Surgical System, WRGA reported April 28.

Washington emergency medicine physician William Washington, MD, was among 19 people charged in an alleged scheme to defraud the NBA's health plan of $5 million, the Justice Department said April 27.

Gross domestic product in the U.S. declined at a 1.4 percent pace in the first quarter, below analyst expectations of a 1 percent gain, CNBC reported April 28.

Physician Janet Arnold, MD, was sentenced to four years in prison on opioid distribution charges, the Justice Department said April 27.

A study using physician surveys and Medicare claims data found no clear link between physician burnout and patient outcomes. 

New York City and Los Angeles are the country's largest cities. Here's how ASC specialty pay stacks up in each one, grouped by practice setting and experience range. Data is from Medscape's physician salary explorer:

Surgery center owners see many positive headwinds over the next year, but there are also challenges. Here are five pieces of good news and five pieces of bad news to know.