Becker's Healthcare April 30, 2024
Hospitals continue to experience “financial and operational impacts” from the Change Healthcare hack more than two months after the cyberattack on the UnitedHealth Group subsidiary, the American Hospital Association said.
While much of Change’s claims and payment processing functions have been restored, hospitals and health systems still need to work through a backlog of claims and reprocess denials, the AHA wrote April 29 to two U.S. senators ahead of a May 1 hearing with UnitedHealth Group.
Change, which processes 15 billion healthcare transactions per year, took dozens of its claims processing systems offline following the Feb. 21 ransomware attack, throwing large swaths of the healthcare...