Pressure Builds for Federal Intervention on Change Healthcare Cyberattack

HealthLeaders Media March 5, 2024
Eric Wicklund

Both the AHA and AMA have called on federal officials to take action on the two-week old cyberattack, including asking United HealthGroup to be more transparent on its actions to resolve the issue

KEY TAKEAWAYS

– A suspected ransomware attack has crippled the operations of Change Healthcare, the IT arm of the UnitedHealth Group, for more than two weeks

– Both the AMA and AHA have asked federal officials to take action to help struggling providers, including setting expectations for payers and asking UnitedHealth Group executives to be more forthcoming in how they’re dealing with the issue

– Both are also asking that more funding be set aside to help providers during the outage.

The American Hospital Association has added...

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