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Deborah Herdman, RN, is administrator at Paragon Surgery Center in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.

From increased ASC payment rates to an amoxicillin shortage, here are five federal healthcare updates Becker's has reported on since Oct. 31:

Mahoua Ray, MD, is the co-founder and managing director of Kansas Pain Management and Kansas Anesthesiology Professionals, as well as chief of pain management at Menorah Medical Center and treasurer for the Kansas Society of Interventional Pain Management.

The Northeast is home to some of the worst states for physicians to practice while the South contains some of the worst states for nurses.

The national average hourly pay is $56.75 per for nurse practitioners, according to the most recent U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational employment statistics survey. Wages and living costs vary from place to place, however.

The best states for physicians to practice are not necessarily the best for nurses.

Brian Gantwerker, MD, is a spine neurosurgeon at The Craniospinal Center of Los Angeles.

Rick Ngo, MD, is the founder and a general surgeon of Texas Surgical Specialists in Fort Worth.

Crystal Marcum is the COO of Stockbridge, Ga.-based Pain Care.

Choll Kim, MD, PhD, is the founder of Minimally Invasive Spine Centers of Excellence, founder and former president of the Society for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and currently an orthopedic spine surgeon at the San Diego-based Excel Spine Center.