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Date. February 21, 2024 – present. (2 months, 2 weeks and 1 day) Type. Cyberattack. Suspects. BlackCat. On February 21, 2024, the American company Change Healthcare, a division of UnitedHealth Group, was affected by a ransomware attack. [1] The cyberattack shut down the largest healthcare payment system in the United States.
Change Healthcare (known as Emdeon before rebranding in 2015, which followed its acquisition of Change Healthcare) is a provider of revenue and payment cycle management that connects payers, providers, and patients within the U.S. healthcare system. The name also refers to a company founded in 2007 which subsequently became part of the current ...
UnitedHealth is the biggest health-care company in the U.S. by market cap, and it owns the health-care provider Optum, which services more than 100 million patients in the U.S., according to its ...
TOM MURPHY. May 1, 2024 at 1:02 PM. The Change Healthcare cyberattack that disrupted health care systems nationwide earlier this year started when hackers entered a server that lacked a basic form ...
Change Healthcare, which processes about 50% of medical claims in the U.S. for around 900,000 physicians, 33,000 pharmacies, 5,500 hospitals and 600 laboratories, was breached on Feb. 21 by a ...
UnitedHealth Group Incorporated is an American multinational health insurance and services company based in Minnetonka, Minnesota.Selling insurance products under UnitedHealthcare, and health care services and care delivery aided by technology and data under Optum, it is the world's eleventh-largest company by revenue and the largest health care company by revenue.
Change Healthcare is a vital lynchpin in the complex U.S. system for making and clearing insurance claims, connecting providers to not just UnitedHealth but also to CVS Health's Aetna, Elevance ...
Ciox Health was created by the merger of HealthPort, IOD Inc., Care Communications Inc. and ECS. It serves more than 18,000 provider sites, 140 health plans and 1 million unique requesters of patient information. In June 2021, Ciox Health was acquired by San Francisco-based Datavant in a $7B deal.l. Recent Acquisition