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OAN’s Brooke Mallory
The CEO of the American Hospital Association, Rick Pollack, stated on Thursday night that the aftermath of a recent ransomware attack on the nation’s biggest health care payment processor is “the most serious incident of its kind leveled against a U.S. health care organization.”
A widely used program that helps healthcare professionals handle insurance claims and patient payments has been rendered useless by the attack on Change Healthcare. As a standard countermeasure, the corporation has taken the majority of its systems offline to stop the attack from spreading.
“Nine days into the attack on Change Healthcare, a health care technology company that is part of Optum and owned by UnitedHealth Group, effects are continuing to be felt throughout the entire health care system,” Pollack said in a news release. The American Hospital Association is the country’s largest healthcare industry group.
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