Senators want answers from the Biden administration on the recent cyberattack that froze millions of hospital and physician insurance claims, and concrete plans to prevent the next disruptive attack on health care. During a hearing Thursday, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) pressed Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to institute cybersecurity requirements for both ...
UnitedHealth Group said on Monday it has advanced payments of over $2 billion so far to provide assistance to healthcare providers, financially affected following a cybersecurity attack on its technology unit, Change Healthcare. The company said it will start releasing its medical claims software on Monday and it will become available to “thousands of customers” ...
Suspending prior authorization requirements as providers continue to to face disruptions from the Change Healthcare hack could do more harm than good, according to AHIP. “Broad exemptions in prior authorization at a time of advanced payments could expose patients and employers to fraud, waste and unnecessary costs,” AHIP President and CEO Mike Tuffin said in ...
Not even presidents can reverse time, so there’s only so much Joe Biden can do to defuse one of his top general election liabilities – his advanced age. But Biden, 81, appears to be in far better shape on this question than he was a week ago – and not just because he charged past the magic ...
Former President Trump in a new interview sought to clarify comments from earlier in the week in which he said there are ways to go about “cutting” entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare. “I will never do anything that will jeopardize or hurt Social Security or Medicare,” Trump told Breitbart News on Wednesday. “We’ll have ...
Biden may have reaffirmed his commitment to federal marijuana policy reform, but simply rescheduling won’t help those who have been most harmed by prohibition, say activists. Whilst at a campaign event in Wisconsin on Wednesday, the President responded to a sign held by a cannabis activist stating “no one should be jailed,” to assure them he was ...