Healthcare IT News April 8, 2024
Andrea Fox

Senators Hawley and Blumenthal asked UnitedHealth Group how Change Healthcare’s systems were breached, why the clearinghouse suffered “such an egregious and unexplained outage” and the extent of data compromised in the ransomware attack.

Senators Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) announced Friday that they wrote to UnitedHealth Group Chief Executive Officer Andrew Witty asking a series of questions relating to what they called UHG’s lack of “sufficient redundancy to prevent an outage,” a timeline of events relating to the February 21 ransomware attack and how UHG is filling the revenue gap providers are experiencing.

The senators requested responses by April 15.

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Hawley, who serves as ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and...

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