For American hospitals and healthcare providers, who had pushed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to transfer the notification duties to UnitedHealth and its unit, the news is a comfort.
According to an update on the health department’s website, U.S. healthcare providers can request that UnitedHealth Group contact individuals whose data was compromised during a hack on the business’s Change Healthcare unit in February. For American hospitals and healthcare providers, who had pushed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to transfer the notification duties to UnitedHealth and its division, the news is a comfort.
In a May 31 update, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the Department of Homeland Security (HHS) said that “affected covered entities that want Change Healthcare to provide breach notifications on their behalf should contact Change Healthcare.” Individual patients must be informed of data breaches within 60 days of their discovery, per US law. UNUMATH’s spokesman said the company appreciates the OCR’s clarification, which “reiterates our stated preference to ease the reporting obligations of our customers.”
The CEO of the healthcare company, Andrew Witty, said before a Congressional committee earlier in May that during the cyberattack on February 21 that caused delays in the processing of medical claims, hackers may have taken up to one-third of the data belonging to Americans. The business is still working to resolve the issues with processing. Witty had previously stated that the business was “going to be substantial” and that it was still looking into the volume of data involved.
According to UnitedHealth’s responses to queries from the Senate Finance Committee, the Wall Street Journal earlier in the day reported on the company’s warning that the compromised data may contain sensitive information such as names, addresses, insurance numbers, and medical codes. The hack at the facility, which manages data systems, healthcare billing, and a host of other services, has severely disrupted the nation’s claims processing, affecting patients and providers alike.
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