KFF Health News March 19, 2024
The Biden administration has hit on a strategy to deal with the massive, industry-paralyzing cyberattack on a UnitedHealth Group unit: pressuring insurers to fix it.
Federal officials have been in constant conversation with senior leaders at UnitedHealth and across the industry, including at a Monday meeting where Department of Health and Human Services and White House officials again pressed UnitedHealth to be more transparent about its timeline for restoring services.
Many insurers have committed to “making accelerated or advance payments,” an HHS official told reporters on a media call after yesterday’s meeting, declining to specify which plans had done so. The plans have also committed to making interim payments to Medicaid providers, a second official added, as well as providing...
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