Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, said it has “substantially” completed identifying and notifying individuals affected by the Feb. 21 ransomware attack.

A February 2024 ransomware attack on UnitedHealth-owned health tech company Change Healthcare stands as the largest data breach of health and medical data in U.S. history.

According to Change Healthcare, letters notifying business customers of the breach started being sent out back in June but New Yorkers have been receiving them as recently as September and October.

Change Healthcare is a Tennessee-based company, part of the health services provider Optum, Inc. and owned by the massive conglomerate UnitedHealth Group. It first reported experiencing company ...

Change Healthcare is one of the largest handlers of health, medical data and patient records, and in 2022 it merged with U.S. health care provider Optum as part of a deal with UHG, bringing the ...

Change Healthcare cyberattack having ‘far-reaching’ effects on providers Providers said the outage at the UnitedHealth-owned technology company has affected billing, eligibility checks, prior ...

In February, a massive cyberattack at UnitedHealth-owned Change Healthcare shut down many of the financial operations of healthcare organizations. The industry is still recovering. Providers have ...

Change Healthcare’s payment framework can be traced back to the dawn of Internet-based e-commerce in health care. Up until the mid-1990s, health care claims were paper and fax-transmitted ...

Change Healthcare also has a dedicated call center available both to access those services and to access emotional support services. You can reach that call center at 1-866-262-5342.

The cyberattack began on Feb. 21 against Change Healthcare, which is a health care technology company that is part of Optum and owned by UnitedHealth Group, according to the American Hospital ...