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The CMS compiled data from 3,300 hospitals. It lists their fees for the top 100 most frequently billed treatments as determined by the Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Group.

The report shows dramatically different costs for the same surgeries not only varying state to state, but by hospitals in the same city.

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Some legislators say groceries are a reliable source of revenue for the state because people have to eat. They are considering a plan that would reduce state income tax and add taxes to services and goods like groceries.

Currently, groceries are taxed locally about 2%, but there are no grocery taxes from the state. The proposal would add anywhere from a 4% to 6% tax on groceries, in addition to the current 2%.

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Businesses with family firm pride, community social ties and long-term orientation create a positive family firm image that leads to better performance, according to recent study results. A strong family firm image and family influences on the firm can be leveraged to create a competitive advantage for family owned and led businesses.

Esra Memili, PhD, assistant professor at the Bryan School of Business and Economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, told O&P Business News. “By drawing upon organizational identity theory and family business literature, we developed and tested a model investigating the effects of family firm pride, long-term orientation and community social ties on family firm image and the impact of family firm image on firm performance.”

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John Lin, a junior majoring in Consumer Apparel and Retail Studies, won “best in show” at the Red Ribbon Runway Fashion Show in Winston-Salem on April 6. All garments for the show were made using 100 percent of three Hanes T-Shirts. The fashion show was organized by AIDS Care Services of Winston-Salem.

 Model: Pang Chou Chang

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CTASIT — which stands for Complex Task Assessment Solutions and Information Technology LLC — was founded in April 2012 by Eric Ford, the Forsyth Medical Center Distinguished Professor of Healthcare with a joint appointment in the Bryan School and the UNCG School of Nursing, and Dmytro Babik, a Bryan School doctoral student, in collaboration with two other partners.

CTASIT provides Mobius SLIP (Social Learning Information Platform) — a web-based application to promote student creativity, critical thinking and communication skills. Mobius SLIP has been used by about 3,000 students at a half-dozen universities including UNCG, University of Georgia, Ohio State and University of Calgary.

NC IDEA is an organization dedicated to business innovation and economic advancement in the state.

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“I think that things are not improving a lot,” said Dora Gicheva, a University of North Carolina at Greensboro professor who studies labor markets. “Things are a still lot higher in North Carolina compared to the U.S.”

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