Senior Biden administration officials on Tuesday pressed the CEO of health care giant UnitedHealth Group and other health care firms to do more to get vital payments flowing to health care providers three weeks after a cyberattack crippled those payment systems, sources familiar with the meeting told CNN. The ransomware attack prevented some insurance payments on prescription drugs from processing, leaving many care providers footing the bill up front and hoping to get reimbursed. Some health care providers have lost more than $100 million per day because of the outage, one industry analyst previously told CNN. CNN has requested comment from the Department of Health and Human Services and UnitedHealthGroup on the meeting. But the financial wreckage caused by the cyberattack will take a lot longer to clean up, health providers and analysts say.

Source: CNN March 12, 2024 18:47 UTC