Congress Asks What Went Wrong in Change Healthcare Attack

Parent Company UHG Is a No-Show at Hearing & Faces Data Leak, Attack Costs of $1.6B Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • April 16, 2024

The aftershocks of the Change Healthcare cyberattack are still reverberating through the healthcare sector nearly 60 days into the recovery process. But on Tuesday, members of Congress and industry experts grappled with how to avoid a future replay - minus a key witness: UnitedHealth Group, parent company of Change Healthcare.

Instead of traveling to Washington, D.C., to discuss the attack's effect on the healthcare industry at a House subcommittee hearing, UnitedHealth Group released its earnings and told financial analysts the attack had an "unfavorable effect" of $872 million on first quarter 2024 earnings.

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