Health IT Security February 29, 2024
Jill McKeon

The advocacy group requested guidance, financial resources, and enforcement discretion to help medical groups stay afloat as the Change Healthcare cyberattack outages persist.

The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) urged HHS to use “all the tools at its disposal” to mitigate the impacts of the Change Healthcare cyberattack on medical groups in a letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra.

As the industry enters its second week of outages, providers are facing uncertainty when it comes to billing and cash flow, with no timeline for regaining access to Change systems. MGMA’s conversations with members over the past week revealed troubling themes.

For example, medical groups are facing “substantial” billing and cash flow disruptions, are getting limited electronic remittance advice from health...

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