https://www.axios.com/2024/03/20/unitedhealth-cyberattack-lawsuits

Meeting this morning with some staff of NPS team stating they no longer will be contact due to being part of RIF yesterday. Were there other departments?

https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/us-congress-change-healthcare-cyberattack-letter-to-hhs.pdf

He has written about this nightmare, give him the noble prize already. https://hbr.org/2023/10/whats-lost-when-data-systems-dont-communicate

Wow....looks at this article. Hopefully the audio works for you. Whistleblower Releases Audio, Files Complaint: Cites Medical Billing Plot at Optum | The Examiner... — read more 

Just met with one of their associate Directors and it seems that they will be doing some major restructuring in the Claims and Rx departments. They’re looking to downsize or close up departments, move employees around, and move those positions to... — read more 

Friendly reminder that the monopolistic squidface that is UnitedHealthcare Group does not care about its employees. You could be a third rate doctor denying claims. A nurse upcoding our elderly patients. A programmer writing sh---y code. At the... — read more 

Corporate Greed Made the Change Healthcare Cyberattack Worse …. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/corporate-greed-made-the-change-healthcare-cyberattack-worse.html

Should the DOJ Break Up UnitedHealth Group? https://medcitynews.com/2024/03/doj-antitrust-investigation-unitedhealth/ Good idea, really good or extremely good idea?

Many execs out at the Players Championship last week living it up, posting about their fun online, all while providers continue to deal with the fallout from the cyber attack. This is a perfect example of the culture of Optum

https://www.thelayoff.com/unitedhealth-group

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/cybersecurity/the-change-healthcare-cyberattack-a-timeline.html This is disheartening indeed. If you are late in premiums, you got your healthcare coverage cancelled. Yet, when you put national wide providers... — read more 

T-Plus 23 days

Considering the tenet under current leadership seems to be "take the money and run." Suprisingly, I found oodles of IT jobs on the homepage. Didn't they just RIF a lot of IT stateside?

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/15/why-unitedhealth-change-healthcare-were-targets-of-ransomware-hackers.html On the dark web, medical records sell for $60 compared to $15 for a Social Security number and $3 for a credit card.

Open in app Sign up Sign in PUTT: UnitedHealth Group Responsible For Chaos and Patient Care Breakdowns Resulting From Change Healthcare Cyber Attack Pharmacists United for Truth & Transparency Pharmacists United for Truth &... — read more 

The class action lawsuit against UHC is about to begin. For wheeling and dealing with Wells Cargo to cheat their employees out of 401k money. Everyday it just gets better and better..

No direction so far from anywhere. Don't say training. ha

https://www.oregon.gov/oha/HPA/HP/HCMOPageDocs/HCMO-Public-Comments-018-Optum-Corvallis.pdf

https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2024/03/13/hhs-office-civil-rights-issues-letter-opens-investigation-change-healthcare-cyberattack.html

What effects was felt across other sectors of businesses, such as the Enterprise Imaging division? Customers are likely to experience significant impacts too, though hopefully not to such an extreme degree.

Our current CEO sent an email to population health management teams thanking us for helping members recover from chronic conditions. Really?! This is who the board chose to be at the helm?!

The Department Of Health and Human Services has opened an investigation into UnitedHealth Group following a cyberattack on its unit Change Healthcare, it said on Wednesday 03/13/2024. The probe would focus on identifying the extent of the breach and... — read more 

Wake up call to all. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/insider-sell-evp-chief-people-230143179.html

https://www.beckerspayer.com/m-and-a/optum-looks-to-fast-track-oregon-clinic-purchase-amid-solvency-emergency.html?origin=BHRE&utm_source=BHRE&utm_medium=email&utm_content=newsletter&oly_enc_id=6188A0242256G0A Instead of make good of the mess... — read more 

leadership - must replace a new laptop with no need to reconfigure the proprietary apps. Leaders - who can do this? Team - they were let go in the previous RIFs Leaders - can W$$ Pro@ step in? Team - it’s leadership decision, why don’t you go ask... — read more 

Biden administration officials demanded Tuesday that UnitedHealth Group take more steps to stabilize the U.S. health system following a national health payment crisis that hospitals, doctors and other health-care groups said is threatening their... — read more 

Search: "Breaking down the attack on Change Healthcare" in Apple podcast.

when someone will be held responsible?

https://solution-status.optum.com

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/some-hospitals-risk-running-out-of-cash-amid-change-outage-moodys.html?origin=CIOE&utm_source=CIOE&utm_medium=email&utm_content=newsletter&oly_enc_id=6188A0242256G0A In the meantime raking in premiums... — read more 

Especially ones related to tracking who is posting!

To all those navigating through this period of complete and utter chaos at Optum, you have my deepest sympathies. I left a while ago and I can't believe everything I've been reading about the company. I can't even imagine still being on the inside... — read more 

According to this article, the "heroic" loan program mentioned at the town hall was peanuts on the dollar so that some providers are possibly being forced to sell to... — read more 

https://prospect.org/health/2024-03-10-unitedhealth-exploits-emergency-change-ransomware-oregon/

https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2024/03/19/letter-to-health-care-leaders-on-cyberattack-on-change-healthcare.html

I think it's still too early, but I guess you can never know for sure.

In the realm where CHC's banner unfurls, A fate unfolds, a tale of swirling twirls. Sullied, tainted, in the shadows it resides, A brand once proud, now in history derides. Through the corridors of health care IT, Echoes the crisis, dark and heavy... — read more