Gas prices surge in metro Savannah
Average retail gasoline prices in Savannah have risen 4.2 cents a gallon in the past week to $3.76 a gallon on Sunday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 262 gas outlets in Savannah.
The national average has increased 2.9 cents a gallon in the last week to $3.72, according to gasoline price website GasBuddy.com.
Prices Sunday were 10.6 cents a gallon higher than the same day one year ago and are 37.9 cents a gallon higher than a month ago. The national average has increased 42.0 cents a gallon during the last month and stands 9.1 cents higher than a year ago.
GasBuddy data showed the national average rising for 32 consecutive days, starting Jan. 20 at $3.265 a gallon and ending Feb. 21 at $3.733 a gallon.
GasBuddy.com Senior Petroleum Analyst Patrick DeHaan said prices may linger near these levels for some time.
Baccha Bash raises money for Red Cross
Savannah’s Paint the Town Red Committee will hold its annual Baccha Bash at Dub’s Pub, 225 W. River St., from 7-9 p.m. Friday.
Money raised by the competitive blind wine tasting event will go to the local chapter of the American Red Cross. The competition is based on teams of one to four participants, and each team brings three bottles of a favorite wine. Admission is $40.
At the event, two of each team’s three bottles are bagged, tagged and then ranked by each tasting participant. The third bottle is left unopened. The team with the highest-ranked wine will receive the winning stash of all the other team’s unopened bottles, except for the lowest-ranked wine, which may returned to the team that brought it.
To reserve tickets, contact Cecilia Russo at Cecilia.Russo@RedCross.org or 912-651-5319.
Healthpac, PatientPay announce partnership
PatientPay, a company that provides health care billing solutions, and Savannah-based Healthpac Computer Systems Inc., which supplies practice management software for billing companies, have announced a strategic partnership to make patient billing, collection and reconciliation faster and less costly for providers who use Healthpac’s software.
“PatientPay extends the efficiency of Healthpac’s practice management software by bringing the speed, ease and accuracy of automation to patient balance management that for too long has been bogged down by antiquated methods, specifically paper billing, slow collections and manual reconciliation,” said Buddy Claborn, Healthpac’s founder and CEO.
The announcement said PatientPay eliminates paper-based billing methods used by a majority of health care providers and drives down the expense and drives up the productivity of billing by 50 percent.