Doctors across the U.S. are stretching to keep their practices afloat as a debilitating cyberattack on a once little-known company at the center of the healthcare system continues to cause havoc.
The Feb. 21 attack against Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of the largest U.S. health insurer by market value, UnitedHealth Group, has seized the healthcare system for three weeks and counting, halting the normal flow of billions of dollars in payments between doctors, hospitals, pharmacies and insurers. The paralysis is tilting some clinics into financial peril.
