In the wake of an attack on Change Healthcare UnitedHealth Group has paid out over $2 billion to help effected health-care providers. Change Healthcare handles prescriptions and billing for more than 67,000 pharmacies in the U.S.
A ransomware attack beginning February 21st caused widespread outages to hospitals and pharmacies across the U.S. Change Healthcare took a large number of their systems offline to try and mitigate the attack, reportedly attributed to BlackCat, a.k.a APPHV. Services were down for multiple days causing severe disruptions for healthcare providers.