Cybersecurity
Change Healthcare Cyberattack Is Still Disrupting Pharmacies, Other Providers
- Pharmacies, hospitals struggle to process claims due to outage
- One health plan saw number of claims it receives drop by 40%
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A cyberattack that has disrupted Change Healthcare’s computer networks for nearly a week is creating a growing administrative problem for pharmacies and health-care providers around the nation.
Change Healthcare, a division of UnitedHealth Group Inc., processes insurance claims and pharmacy requests for more than 340,000 physicians and 60,000 pharmacies. The hack was discovered on Feb. 21, prompting UnitedHealth to isolate the impacted systems.