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Senior Biden administration officers on Tuesday pressed the CEO of well being care large UnitedHealth Group and different well being care corporations to do extra to get important funds flowing to well being care suppliers three weeks after a cyberattack crippled these fee techniques, sources conversant in the assembly advised CNN.
The assembly featured Well being and Human Providers Secretary Xavier Becerra, senior White Home officers, and Andrew Witty, the CEO of UnitedHealth Group, whose subsidiary Change Healthcare was hit by a cyberattack final month, the sources stated.
The US officers urged Witty and different well being care executives within the room to take extra steps to get emergency funding flowing to cash-strapped well being practices, a few of which have advised CNN that they’re working out of cash due to the cyberattack and that they could possibly be pressured to shut.
Change Healthcare processes about 15 billion transactions yearly and serves hundreds of hospitals, insurers and pharmacies nationwide. The ransomware assault prevented some insurance payments on prescription drugs from processing, leaving many care suppliers footing the invoice up entrance and hoping to get reimbursed.
Some well being care suppliers have misplaced greater than $100 million per day due to the outage, one industry analyst previously advised CNN.
A White Home Nationwide Safety Council spokesperson had no instant remark.
CNN has requested remark from the Division of Well being and Human Providers and UnitedHealthGroup on the assembly.
The Washington Put up first reported on the assembly.
Change Healthcare announced plans final week to have its digital fee platform again on-line by March 15 and its community for submitting claims restored the next week.
However the monetary wreckage attributable to the cyberattack will take quite a bit longer to wash up, well being suppliers and analysts say.