Mastercard VP Amber Dawkins was minutes into her presentation about Mastercard's Small Business Community at their Empowering Small Business event when entrepreneur Ruby Ghosh raised her hand to ask about the cost of the program.
"Zero, it's free," Dawkins, Mastercard's VP of North America Product Management, said. "At Mastercard, we firmly believe in doing well by doing good, so we created this as a resource."
South Carolina's small businesses are booming, driving 70.9% of the state's new job growth in the past year.
What you need to know: Recently Mastercard hosted a Empowering Small Business: Strategies for Success event in Greenville, where local business owners, policymakers and industry leaders came together to discuss the realities of running a business today, the challenges they face and the opportunities they see for growth.
A new Medicare payment trial will determine whether the federal government can promote digital health applications like remote monitoring to manage chronic illnesses.
Why it matters: Traditional Medicare currently pays care providers based on the volume of individually billable services they deliver, which makes digital health adoption difficult.
