Becker's Healthcare March 5, 2024
HHS said March 5 it would help accelerate payments to hospitals affected by the Change Healthcare cyberattack and institute other workarounds for providers.
The agency said hospitals facing cash-flow issues from the IT outage can submit accelerated payment requests, like those issued during the pandemic, to their Medicare Administrative Contractors for “individual consideration.” HHS said more details would be coming from the contractors later this week.
Organizations like the American Hospital Association and American Medical Association had urged HHS to act following the ransomware attack that caused UnitedHealth Group’s Change Healthcare to take its claims and payment processing systems offline Feb. 21, leaving much of the healthcare industry reeling. One cybersecurity firm estimated that large health systems were bleeding over...
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