California Healthline March 8, 2024
Margaret Parsons, one of three dermatologists at a 20-person practice in Sacramento, is in a bind.
Since a Feb. 21 cyberattack on a previously obscure medical payment processing company, Change Healthcare, Parsons said, she and her colleagues haven’t been able to electronically bill for their services.
She heard Noridian Healthcare Solutions, California’s Medicare payment processor, was not accepting paper claims as of earlier this week, she said. And paper claims can take 3-6 months to result in payment anyway, she estimated.
“We will be in trouble in very short order, and are very stressed,” she said in an interview with California Healthline.
A California Medical Association spokesperson said March 7 that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services had agreed...
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