Change Healthcare Update: We continue to monitor Change Healthcare on all updates around the Cyber response. Both Change Healthcare and UnitedHealth Group continue to post updates via their websites: Change Healthcare and UnitedHealth Group.
Our actions: Upon learning of the incident and in an abundance of caution, all inbound and outbound transactions with Change Healthcare continue to be disconnected. We will continue to monitor their communications and reestablish connections until such time as Change Healthcare indicates it is safe to do so. In the interim, we are taking the additional actions listed below:
Commercial Payers
We have established a direct connection with United Healthcare and Aetna. We continue the process of submitting backlogs for those payers, where applicable. We have also continued to make connections with alternate clearinghouses to route claims.
Government Payers
We continue to leverage direct connections through our parent company to setup direct submission capabilities with Government payers. To accomplish this, our employees are diligently working to complete forms, where applicable, and submit them to you for signature. We appreciate your prompt attention to these forms as that will help expedite the process. Upon receipt of such forms, we will be able to directly connect your account to government payers. While this process may take a couple week to complete, this will allow us to have redundancy and efficiency for all inbound and outbound transactions in the event there are any similar future events.
Change Healthcare Submissions
For clarity, Change Healthcare transactions remain on hold. You still have the ability to queue the claims and once the connections are reestablished and/or Change Healthcare provides an alternative solution we will work expeditiously to ensure those are processed as soon as possible.
Our Commitment: We want to emphasize that protecting your data and maintaining the trust you place in us is of paramount importance. We are continuously monitoring the situation to investigate for further updates and implementing additional measures and redundancies that can avoid future disruptions and address current concerns. We understand the importance of transparency and wish to reassure you of our commitment to safeguarding your information and reestablishing the connection once all matters are resolved.
Posted Apr 12, 2024 - 15:59 EDT
Update
Date Range: 2/21/24 – to date.
Change Healthcare Update: We are writing to provide you with an update on the Change Healthcare f/k/a Emdeon cybersecurity incident. As of the most recent update at 9:03 am on 2/27/24, they expect the disruption to continue. Change Healthcare has communicated that they are still working on the issue and will provide additional information as soon as possible.
Our actions: Upon learning of the incident and in an abundance of caution, all inbound and outbound transactions with Change Healthcare continue to be disconnected. We will not reestablish connections until such time as Change Healthcare indicates it is safe to do so. In the interim, we are taking the additional actions listed below:
Commercial Payers
We have established a direct connection with United Healthcare and Humana. We are in the process of submitting backlogs for those payers, where applicable, and anticipate this process to be completed within 24-48 hours.
Government Payers
We are leveraging direct connections we currently have through our parent company to setup direct submission capabilities with Government payers. Attached please find a list of all government payers we can establish a direct connection with. To accomplish this, our employees are diligently working to complete forms, where applicable, and submit them to you for signature. We appreciate your prompt attention to these forms as that will help expedite the process. Upon receipt of such forms, we will be able to directly connect your account to government payers. While this process may take a couple week to complete, this will allow us to have redundancy and efficiency for all inbound and outbound transactions in the event there are any similar future events.
Change Healthcare Submissions
For clarity, Change Healthcare transactions remain on hold. You still have the ability to queue the claims and once the connections are reestablished and/or Change Healthcare provides an alternative solution we will work expeditiously to ensure those are processed as soon as possible.
Our Commitment: We want to emphasize that protecting your data and maintaining the trust you place in us is of paramount importance. We are continuously monitoring the situation to investigate for further updates and implementing additional measures and redundancies that can avoid future disruptions and address current concerns. We understand the importance of transparency and wish to reassure you of our commitment to safeguarding your information and reestablishing the connection once all matters are resolved.
We are writing to inform you that Change Healthcare f/k/a Emdeon is experiencing a cybersecurity incident and they have informed that their security experts are addressing the matter. As of the most recent update at 11:32am on 2/22/24, they expect the disruption will last at least through the day.
Our actions: Upon learning of the incident and in an abundance of caution, we temporarily disconnected all inbound and outbound transactions with Change Healthcare and have halted recent EDI submissions to evaluate and scan their integrity before they enter our system to prevent any potential risks. There is no indication that this cybersecurity event has impacted any CareCloud technology or services. Our dedicated cybersecurity team is working diligently to assess the situation and monitoring updates from Change Healthcare.
Potential impact: The areas impacted by this may be:
Eligibility Outbound electronic claims Patient statements Inbound receipt of ERAs
For clarity, you still have the ability to use the CareCloud system, but the data transmission both inbound and outbound for all Change Healthcare transactions will be suspended until the issue is resolved and all connections are reestablished.
We want to emphasize that protecting your data and maintaining the trust you place in us is of paramount importance. We are continuously monitoring the situation to investigate for further updates. We understand the importance of transparency and wish to reassure you of our commitment to safeguarding your information and reestablishing the connection once all matters are resolved.
Change Healthcare has an ongoing outage affecting claim submissions, payments, and patient eligibility. We're actively working with Change Healthcare and apologize for any inconvenience. Thanks for your patience.
Posted Feb 22, 2024 - 10:24 EST
Investigating
Change Healthcare eligibility is facing connectivity issues. We're engaged with their support to resolve this and will update when fixed