https://solution-status.optum.com
Unethical Business Practices The Norm
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/some-hospitals-risk-running-out-of-cash-amid-change-outage-moodys.html?origin=CIOE&utm_source=CIOE&utm_medium=email&utm_content=newsletter&oly_enc_id=6188A0242256G0A In the meantime raking in premiums... — read more
What's up with this site removing posts?
Especially ones related to tracking who is posting!
This is unbelievable
To all those navigating through this period of complete and utter chaos at Optum, you have my deepest sympathies. I left a while ago and I can't believe everything I've been reading about the company. I can't even imagine still being on the inside... — read more
Loan program
According to this article, the "heroic" loan program mentioned at the town hall was peanuts on the dollar so that some providers are possibly being forced to sell to... — read more
UHG and small providers
https://prospect.org/health/2024-03-10-unitedhealth-exploits-emergency-change-ransomware-oregon/
HHS Letter to Health Care Leaders on Cyberattack on UHG 3/10/24
https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2024/03/19/letter-to-health-care-leaders-on-cyberattack-on-change-healthcare.html
What are the chances of layoffs next week?
I think it's still too early, but I guess you can never know for sure.
Change Healthcare now a dirty word in Healthcare - What next?
In the realm where CHC's banner unfurls, A fate unfolds, a tale of swirling twirls. Sullied, tainted, in the shadows it resides, A brand once proud, now in history derides. Through the corridors of health care IT, Echoes the crisis, dark and heavy... — read more
This whole mess is making me even more anxious
I expect at this point for layoffs to start every day. Maybe I’ve been here for too long and lost perspective. Maybe I am literally trained to be constantly terrified of being laid off, while I am so overworked that I have no time or capacity to stop... — read more
HIPAA Violation Fines - Updated for 2024
https://www.hipaajournal.com/hipaa-violation-fines/
Analysis-UnitedHealth could take months to fully recover from hack.
The amount of disruption suggests they don’t have alternate systems at the ready,” said Chester Wisniewski, a director at the cybersecurity firm Sophos. “It’s been 13, 14 days, and that is already longer than I’d expect for backup systems to be spun... — read more
Spoke with a provider today...
...who told me she looks forward to working with uhc in the future. Hopefully the powers that be will get us on a different tack so that provider doesn't regret those words. It's hard to put on a good show for members and providers when you know what... — read more
How can you get ahead of a layoff?
I’m trying to figure out if there’s a way for us to identify if we will be a part of a layoff in another post, someone said to look in secure, but that does not tell me anything.
Justice Department Probing UnitedHealth/Optum Over Antitrust Concerns; Local Layoffs Enacted, More Forecast
"In January, my administrative source learned of the looming local layoffs, which were enacted last Thursday, the same day we spoke. The number that I saw back in January was about 119,” she said of the number of Optum Tri-State employees included... — read more
Timeline to Restore Change Healthcare Systems
Pharmacy services: Electronic prescribing is now fully functional with claim submission and payment transmission also available as of today. We have taken action to make sure patients can access their medicines in the meantime, including Optum Rx... — read more
Little bird told me who’s gonna shoulder the cost
Us. And clients/patients wherever possible. It’s probably prime time to look for another job.
Optum Hack - not Change Healthcare
Throwing CHC under the bus to save Optum reputation? How much more pathetic does it get?
Look Ma!...we made the New York Times. Cyberattack paralyzes Healthcare Payments
https://archive.is/JBltu
People wishing Chapter 11
I know everyone here has some beef or ill-feelings but wow I can’t believe people would want to wish the whole UHG/Optum company to just disappear like that. If a few of us got laid off, why wish that for the other 440,400 employees? Not to mention... — read more
UHG stocks up >5
After the worst hack in healthcare history, stocks bottomed out at the same price as 6 months ago.
Non-Clinical will be adding an additional 100 job positions offshore starting next week
They’re looking to cut some operational costs in the States, and offshore those positions.
Is it only remote people being let go?
I've known a lot of pretty knowledgeable people let go in the last few months and now that I think about it they are all remote. Anyone know in office people that are being cut?
Do "they" ever have a complete thought?!
I'm starting to feel ashamed to say "I'm with uhc." We are the biggest component of healthcare in the US and the powers that be - they blowing it
Cyberattack Lawsuit against UHG starts pilling up. filed in Tennessee and Minnesota
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/change-cyberattack-spawns-threat-of-patient-lawsuits/
UnitedHealth had two days to prevent this attack and did nothing?
UnitedHealth had two days to prevent this attack and did nothing? Per Congressman Gallego’s letter: “It appears that this attack is related to a vulnerability discovered in the ScreenConnect app from ConnectWise, which is used for remote access... — read more
letter from Congress to witty on cyber attack, https://rubengallego.house.gov/imo/media/doc/22724unitedhealthcyberattackletter.pdf
https://rubengallego.house.gov/imo/media/doc/22724unitedhealthcyberattackletter.pdf
11k People Out of Optum Network since 02/21. No ETA to be fully Restored.
Since recovering from 02/21. New Laptops ships out but nothing on those New laptops. Workarounds all I here for next Priority list of products. Even April is still not feasible for recovery.
Failure of leadership
Good companies have good leaders that take responsibility for their actions. Optum has...the pathetic mess that we do. We're so sc--wed with them in charge.
Did the President of UHG just blame the cyberattack on phishing email?
This was not from a phishing email. Wow blamed employees… that’s just awesome.
When do you think layoffs will start?
The ones directly related to the latest cyberattack mess.
JD department
Keep drinking the kool aide. W told the judge in the Change case that UHG / Optum are two separate companies. Well if that the case why did W tell the VP two of them to come up with a strategic plan to increase profit using the UR dept of Optum or... — read more
We must change healthcare in this country
How can we tangibly change the trajectory of healthcare in the US? Is there a country system we should model? Which country has a low to modest GDP spend on healthcare with good outcomes? In 2021, the U.S. spent 17.8 percent of gross domestic... — read more
Where to go?
For those wanting to jump ship, where would you even think about going? Aren't all large competitors in this industry just as bad? Are there any healthcare companies with remote positions that actually put patients over grossly bloated profits?... — read more
AHA letter to Dirk 3/4/24
https://www.aha.org/system/files/media/file/2024/03/Letter-AHA-Expresses-Concerns-with-UHG-Program-in-Response-to-Cyberattack-on-Change-Healthcare..pdf
Sandeep’s LinkedIn
Is it normal for a LinkedIn profile to disappear?
What will be the total cost of this debacle?
I am not talking about immediate cost for the company, but total cost for the industry, society and primarily patients and clients. This just shows how profound the systemic errors and holes are in the corporate world. Vital part of the system, the... — read more
Calls Mount for Government Help as Change Healthcare Hack Freezes Medical Payments.
Federal intervention is desperately needed to help ease a healthcare-sector crisis that began almost two weeks ago with a cyberattack on a key medical technology company that handles insurance filings, lawmakers and trade bodies... — read more