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UHC/Change Healthcare Hack Sows Negative Ripple Effects From a ‘Single Point’ of Failure – PYMNTS.com

UHC/Change Healthcare Hack Sows Negative Ripple Effects From a ‘Single Point’ of Failure – PYMNTS.com

There’s a metaphor here — somewhere. A butterfly flaps its wings, a hurricane ensues. A rock in a pond sets waves in motion that reach distant shores.Find your own illustrative scenario here, but weeks after a cyberattack on Change Healthcare, a billing and payments unit owned by UnitedHealthcare, hit the headlines, the impact lingers.As reported at the end of last month, a “network interruption” was disclosed by Change Healthcare. As a casualty of the outage, several pharmacies reported that they could not process prescriptions through patients’ insurance and billing/payment activities wound up being hobbled. The ultimate pain, we note, is borne… 

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