Forbes June 3, 2024
Bruce Japsen

Doctors want the American Medical Association to look into legal actions and ways for physicians to recoup financial losses in the wake of a cyberattack on UnitedHealth Group’s Change Healthcare unit.

The AMA, which later this week begins its annual policy-making house of delegates meeting, has been hearing from some of its more than 200,000 members in the aftermath of the February cyberattack, which triggered a shutdown of parts of Change Healthcare’s electronic system, leaving doctors and other providers of medical care without the ability to get insurance approval of patient services. The attack has triggered chaos for physicians across the country, paralyzing the largest billing and payment system in the U.S.

Now some within the AMA, which is the...

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