NEW: A rep for the American Hospital Association told me that the outage at Change is causing "significant disruption" for many of its ~5,000 hospitals, w/growing risk that some won't meet payroll.
That differs starkly from what Change parent Co. UnitedHealth is saying.
That differs starkly from what Change parent Co. UnitedHealth is saying.
The problem is the "workarounds" that United has tried to offer aren't working, while its network outage bleeds into week two, AHA rep said.
Impact on patients, too, since some can't get pre-authorization for major procedures.
Story here: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024/0…
Impact on patients, too, since some can't get pre-authorization for major procedures.
Story here: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024/0…
A spox for HHS, which has been working around the clock on this, just gave me a statement: "HHS acknowledges the operational complexity in switching clearinghouses and more broadly, managing the effects of this incident."
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