Hospital & Healthcare Management March 7, 2024
Content Team HHMGlobal

Provider groups are urging the federal government to help mitigate damage post cyberattack against UnitedHealth Group’s Change Healthcare which has gone on to take down many of the tech firm’s systems for almost two weeks.

In a recent letter to Xavier Becerra, the HHS Secretary, the American Medical Association pushed the agency so as to offer emergency funds to the physicians who have gone on to struggle to submit claims as well as receive payment since the outage.

The American Hospital Association has urged Congress to push the HHS for support. The organization looks forward to the fact that HHS must speed advanced Medicare payments, issue guidance as far as other payers are concerned, and execute a financial assistance program.

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