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Tipoffs for Asheville, North Carolina (State) Newsletter for Thursday April 01, 2021 ( 2 items )  

N.C. State Treasurer Folwell Condemns Hospitals' 'Pattern of Deceit' on Price Transparency
RALEIGH, North Carolina, April 1 -- North Carolina Department of State Treasurer Dale R. Folwell issued the following news release on March 31, 2021: State Treasurer Dale R. Folwell, CPA, said today that hospitals in the state are not complying with 2019 federal price transparency rules that required hospitals to post their prices starting in January 2021. The rule is aimed at protecting consumers from surprise billing and driving down costs, but hospitals are fighting price transparency on eve  more

Western Carolina University Tomorrow Black Oral History Project Brings 1980s-era Recordings to Digital Age
CULLOWHEE, North Carolina, April 1 (TNSOps) -- Western Carolina University issued the following news release: Western Carolina University's Special and Digital Collections at Hunter Library has digitized a collection of interviews conducted between 1986 and 1989 with Black residents from Western North Carolina, all of whom were older than 69 at the time. Recorded as part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project are memories of interactions during segregation, life in t  more