UnitedHealth unit Change Healthcare's pharmacy network back ...

NEW YORK: UnitedHealth Group says its unit Change Healthcare's pharmacy network is back online, weeks after a cyberattack had a knock-on effect across the country's healthcare system that depends heavily on insurance. Change Healthcare processes about 50% of medical claims in the United States for around 900,000 physicians, 33,000 pharmacies, 5,500 hospitals and 600 laboratories. As of March 13, all major pharmacy and payment systems are up and more than 99% of pre-incident claim volume is flowing, UnitedHealth said. The company, however, added that its teams are working on some pharmacies that are still offline. Separately, UnitedHealth Group said it has identified the source of the intrusion and established a way to restore the affected systems. A thorough forensic analysis with Alphabet's cybersecurity unit Mandiant and Palo Alto Networks is underway, UnitedHealth said, without p...