{"id":27192,"date":"2025-05-05T15:13:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T15:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27192"},"modified":"2025-05-05T15:34:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T15:34:54","slug":"unitedhealths-move-to-end-cyberattack-loan-lifeline-upsets-medical-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27192","title":{"rendered":"UnitedHealth\u2019s Move to End Cyberattack Loan Lifeline Upsets Medical Providers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The company lent roughly $9 billion to practices affected by a vast cyberattack on its payment systems last year. Medical practices are now suing the health care colossus, saying it is pressuring them to repay funds.<\/p>\n

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Two independent medical practices in Minnesota once hoped to expand operations but have spent the past year struggling to recover from the cyberattack on a vast UnitedHealth Group payment system.<\/p>\n

Odom Health & Wellness, a sports medicine and rehabilitation outfit, and the Dillman Clinic & Lab, a family medicine practice, are among the thousands of medical offices<\/a> that experienced sudden financial turmoil last year. The cyberattack<\/a> against Change Healthcare, a division of United, paralyzed much of the nation\u2019s health-care payment system for months.<\/p>\n

Change lent billions of dollars to medical practices that were short on cash but has begun demanding repayments.<\/p>\n

Dillman and Odom are suing United in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, accusing the corporation of negligence related to the cyberattack and claiming they sustained excessive expenses because of the attack\u2019s fallout.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In addition, Odom and Dillman asserted in court filings that the company\u2019s insurance arm, UnitedHealthcare, has in turn been denying claims to cover patient care for being submitted late.<\/p>\n

Lawmakers viewed the chaos caused by the cyberattack as a result of United\u2019s seemingly insatiable desire to buy up companies like Change, alongside doctors\u2019 practices and pharmacy businesses. The widespread disruption was a reminder of how deeply United\u2019s sprawling subsidiaries had become embedded in the nation\u2019s health care system.<\/p>\n

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The company lent roughly $9 billion to practices affected by a vast cyberattack on its payment systems last year. Medical practices are now suing the health care colossus, saying it is pressuring them to repay funds.Two independent medical practices in Minnesota once hoped to expand operations but have spent the past year struggling to recover from the cyberattack on a vast UnitedHealth Group payment system.Odom Health & Wellness, a sports medicine and rehabilitation outfit, and the Dillman Clinic & Lab, a family medicine practice, are among the thousands of medical offices that experienced sudden financial turmoil last year. The cyberattack against Change Healthcare, a division of United, paralyzed much of the nation\u2019s health-care payment system for months.Change lent billions of dollars to medical practices that were short on cash but has begun demanding repayments.Dillman and Odom are suing United in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, accusing the corporation of negligence related to the cyberattack and claiming they sustained excessive expenses because of the attack\u2019s fallout.In addition, Odom and Dillman asserted in court filings that the company\u2019s insurance arm, UnitedHealthcare, has in turn been denying claims to cover patient care for being submitted late.Lawmakers viewed the chaos caused by the cyberattack as a result of United\u2019s seemingly insatiable desire to buy up companies like Change, alongside doctors\u2019 practices and pharmacy businesses. The widespread disruption was a reminder of how deeply United\u2019s sprawling subsidiaries had become embedded in the nation\u2019s health care system.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27194,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27195,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27192\/revisions\/27195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}