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CANCER CLINICS FACE CASH CRUNCH AFTER HACK ROCKS US HEALTH CARE

The Change Healthcare cyberattack brought the routine flow of billions of
dollars in payments to a halt, putting medical practices under pressure
nationwide

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A cyberattack against a division of UnitedHealth Group Inc. caused a nationwide
outage of a computer network that’s used to transmit data between health-care
providers and insurance companies.

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March 13, 2024 at 11:00 AM GMT+1
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Doctors across the US are stretching to keep their practices afloat as a
debilitating cyberattack on a once little-known company at the center of the
health-care system continues to cause havoc.

The Feb. 21 attack against Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of the largest US
health insurer by market value, UnitedHealth Group Inc., has seized the
health-care system for three weeks and counting, halting the normal flow of
billions of dollars in payments between doctors, hospitals, pharmacies and
insurers. The paralysis is tilting some clinics into financial peril.

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