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 

I expect at this point for layoffs to start every day. Maybe I’ve been here for too long and lost perspective. Maybe I am literally trained to be constantly terrified of being laid off, while I am so overworked that I have no time or capacity to stop... — read more 

https://www.hipaajournal.com/hipaa-violation-fines/

The amount of disruption suggests they don’t have alternate systems at the ready,” said Chester Wisniewski, a director at the cybersecurity firm Sophos. “It’s been 13, 14 days, and that is already longer than I’d expect for backup systems to be spun... — read more 

...who told me she looks forward to working with uhc in the future. Hopefully the powers that be will get us on a different tack so that provider doesn't regret those words. It's hard to put on a good show for members and providers when you know what... — read more 

I’m trying to figure out if there’s a way for us to identify if we will be a part of a layoff in another post, someone said to look in secure, but that does not tell me anything.

"In January, my administrative source learned of the looming local layoffs, which were enacted last Thursday, the same day we spoke. The number that I saw back in January was about 119,” she said of the number of Optum Tri-State employees included... — read more 

Pharmacy services: Electronic prescribing is now fully functional with claim submission and payment transmission also available as of today. We have taken action to make sure patients can access their medicines in the meantime, including Optum Rx... — read more