In a public update released on Monday, UnitedHealth Group claims to have given more than$ 2 billion to healthcare providers who have experienced financial disruption as a result of a widespread cyberattack.
Hospitals, hospitals, and health care providers across the nation that relied on the company’s clinical data services for billing were affected by the attack against its Change Healthcare company at the end of February.
The Minnetonka- based heath care giant said Monday it continues to make headway towards , are- launching , those information technology systems , this month.
The release comes after three health care providers last year told the Star Tribune about their , challenges accessing aid money  , from the business. The American Hospital Association earlier this month , blasted United Health’s first financial comfort program , as unsatisfactory.
” We continue to make substantial progress in restoring the service impacted by this cyberattack”, Andrew Witty, the chief executive at UnitedHealth Group, said in a statement. We encourage anyone in need to contact us because we are aware that this has been a significant concern for health care providers.
UnitedHealth said it will continue to improve and increase the funding options available to health care providers while making it simpler for them to do so. In its speech, UnitedHealth said it “recognizes the higher level of separation of the U. S. wellness program can result in uneven experience”.
Change Healthcare, a UnitedHealth conglomerate that handles 15 billion electric claims data annually and is a commonly used clearinghouse for electric claims, was the target of the cyberattack in February. In the United States, one out of every three individual records is a result of the systems being involved in.
UnitedHealth Group is cooperating with a national research into the attack while scrambling to regain Change Healthcare systems that it shut down to avert the danger.
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