UnitedHealth Group (UHG) subsidiary Change Healthcare still maintains that no patient data was compromised in the cyberattack that caused a shutdown of company services throughout the month of March.
The company has begun the review process for potentially compromised public health information and will begin releasing medical claims...
President Joe Biden released his budget proposal this week which centers Medicare-boosting policies, lowering prescription drug prices and continuing subsidies to Affordable Care Act exchange insurers.
The president is pitching his $7.3 trillion budget for 2025 on the argument that it will curb national debt and reduce the deficit by...National News
The exact nature of the Change Healthcare cybersecurity incident remains mysterious as concerned parties come forward to voice concerns about Change, UnitedHealth Group and the use of healthcare technologies controlled by large companies.
Last Friday, Change Healthcare announced that it would offer a temporary assistance loan program...
Last week, UnitedHealth Group's (UHG) health care technology subsidiary Change Healthcare was hit by a cyberattack that disrupted services for pharmacies and patients.
UHG said that once the attack was detected, Change was forced to disconnect some of its digital network from client access and shut down services including programs...
On August 17, 2023, a cyber security breach at TMG Health put at risk 47,485 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona patients' personal information, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
On June 21, 2023, Arizona’s largest commercial insurer Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona (BCBSAZ) was informed by TMG Health, of...Reports & Surveys
In 2022 Arizona ranked 10th in the nation based on a reported loss of $241 million by victims of ransomeware attacks.
The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) was established in May 2000 to receive complaints of Internet-related crime and has received more than 7.3 million complaints since its inception, averaging 651,800...
As cyberattacks on healthcare providers and industry services continue into 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it reached a $1.25 million settlement with Banner Health following a federal probe into a 2016 data breach that disclosed the protected health information of 2.81 million...
According to new data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR), there was a slight decrease in the number of cyber attacks on health data, but the decrease was only enough to rank the year second worst of all time in the number of reported breaches.
The breaches peaked in October with...Arizona News
Characterized as an "IT security issue" the fourth-largest U.S. health system has 140 hospitals, including locations in Phoenix, Chandler, Gilbert, Glendale, Laveen, Mesa and Prescott.
In Chicago, The Associated Press reported the attack had repercussions including diverted ambulances, treatment delays and electronic health records...
CISA, FBI, and HHS have credible information of an increased and imminent cybercrime threat to U.S. hospitals and healthcare providers. CISA, FBI, and HHS are sharing this information to provide warning to healthcare providers to ensure that they take timely and reasonable precautions to protect their networks from these threats.
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Those who said they were willing to sell the data would do so for as little as between $500 and $1,000.
Accenture surveyed 912 qualified employees of health providers (601) and payer organizations (311) from the United States and Canada. All the respondents had access to digital health data, including personally identifiable...