Posted on 02/23/2024 3:43:51 AM PST by NautiNurse
Pharmacies across the United States are reporting that they are having difficulty getting prescriptions to patients because of a cyberattack on a unit of UnitedHealth.
The company said in a regulatory filing Thursday its Change Healthcare business, which processes prescriptions to insurance for tens of thousands of pharmacies nationwide, was compromised by hackers who gained access to some of its systems. The company became aware of the cyberattack Wednesday, and, in a separate statement, said it expected the attack to last at least throughout the day Thursday.
The cyberattack prevented some pharmacies from processing prescriptions to insurance companies to receive payment.
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“This outage is impacting dispensing of pharmacy prescriptions – resulting in delays in processing and in some cases, inability to process,” the hospital said. “Refills have also been impacted.”
GoodRX, which offers discounts on prescriptions. also said its services were disrupted.
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“UnitedHealth Group identified a suspected nation-state associated cyber security threat actor had gained access to some of the Change Healthcare information technology systems,” the company said. “Immediately upon detection of this outside threat, the company proactively isolated the impacted systems from other connecting systems in the interest of protecting our partners and patients, to contain, assess and remediate the incident.”
Companies are required to report cyberattacks to investors via the SEC, and it’s probable that UnitedHealth doesn’t yet know what – or who – caused the attack. The hack would be unusual for a nation-state-sponsored attack, because it more closely resembles ransomware attacks that have caused chaos across America’s hospitals and health care networks over the past several years.
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We can only hope.
Where and what are all the “Patriots” in DC doing to protect us? Nada!
No FBI.
No NSA.
No Military Intelligence.
No CIA.
A big fat zero.
2 years happens to be the common time period when a statute of limitations runs out.
This is a nightmare- and really no way to prevent it. “Progress” in healthcare is often very costly in multiple ways.
We can thank Obama for mandating the outrageously expensive and burdensome electronic medical record nightmare.
Seems like there are always other priorities than protecting American citizens
I couldn’t agree more. The whole electronic record-keeping system is often inefficient and needlessly time consuming. Ask any bedside nurse what their time is spent doing. They’re on their devices. Orrr..on the phone with IT support because of tech issues.
they do a lot of healthcare related IT things, I work with them in the past, sad united bought them out. not good for the industry
all of the health insurance date breaches are kept hush hush
because they dont have a cule as to who the bad actors are
the dark web is a very bad place
I couldn’t refill my Eliquis today, they told me I could buy it out-of-pocket for $800! Screw that nonsense.
They said come back next week. I’m lucky to have a week supply but what about those people who don’t?!
UnitedHealthcare should be covering Rx refills until this is sorted out.
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