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☆ Cyberattack on UnitedHealth firm forces doctors to dig into personal savings to stay afloat
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-30 | by ( Ashley Capoot | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +19 min

Change Healthcare offers payment and revenue cycle management tools, and other solutions such as electronic prescription software. On Feb. 21, UnitedHealth Group , which owns Change Healthcare, discovered that hackers compromised part of the unit's information technology systems. UnitedHealth told CNBC earlier this month that there is "no evidence of any new cyber incident at Change Healthcare." It's just one of the ways Change Healthcare touches cash flow within the health-care sector. A controversial mergerSheldon Cooper | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesUnitedHealth's ownership of Change Healthcare has raised eyebrows from the outset.

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☆ Outages from Change Healthcare cyberattack causing financial 'mess' for doctors
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Ashley Capoot | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Small private practices and health-care providers are facing mounting financial pressures as crucial reimbursement systems remain down for the ninth day, following the cyberattack on Change Healthcare. Change Healthcare offers tools for payment and revenue cycle management that help facilitate transactions between providers and most major insurance companies. As of Thursday, Change Healthcare has not shared any updates about when it expects its systems to be back online. Change Healthcare on Thursday said that ransomware group Blackcat is behind the attack. He said it's not clear whether Change Healthcare will take on the responsibility of processing all the claims or if he'll need to hire additional staff to help.

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☆ Cyberattack on health insurance IT giant continues to disrupt business for doctors, therapists
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Sean Lyngaas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

“I’ve begun manually billing and I’m praying that I will be paid,” Disney told CNN. Lack of payment isn’t sustainableCarter Groome, chief executive of Health First Advisory, a cybersecurity firm whose clients include big health care organizations, estimated that some health care providers are losing more than $100 million per day because of the outage. “That’s just not sustainable in an industry with not a lot of cash on hand,” Groome told CNN. As of Wednesday morning, Change Health Care said the company’s affected network was still offline. Hackers using the malware have claimed a slew of attacks on US universities, health care providers and hotels in the last 18 months.

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☆ While officials consider new Covid isolation guidance, here's what an immunologist recommends you do if you test positive
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-20 | by ( Renée Onque | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

By April, there may be a new isolation period recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for people who test positive for Covid-19. Currently, the CDC says that people who test positive for the coronavirus should stay home for five days and isolate from the people that they live with. The length of isolation for those with a positive Covid test may now be based on an individual approach. The new recommendation hasn't been approved yet, but if it will be, here's what Parikh suggests for people who test positive for Covid. Here's what a doctor suggests if you test positive for Covid

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A smartphone with a displayed Intel logo is placed on a computer motherboard in this illustration taken March 6, 2023. Mizuho upgraded Intel's stock to "buy" from "neutral" and raised its price target on the shares to $50 from $37. Intel shares rose as high as $43.39, the highest since June 2022, and closed up 6.7% to $43.35 on Thursday. "We believe (Intel) is lining up significant new server product launches and foundry customer announcements in the next six months," the analysts wrote. Intel competes for market share with other prominent chipmakers including Nvidia (NVDA.O), Broadcom Inc (AVGO.O), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O), and Samsung Electronics (005930.KS).

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☆ More than 300 people on one of Princess Cruises' ships fell ill and suffered from vomiting and diarrhea, CDC says
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

More than 300 people became sick on one of Princess Cruises' ships, the CDC said. Princess Cruises said it was a "mild gastrointestinal illness" likely caused by norovirus. In a statement to Insider, Princess Cruises described the sickness as a "mild gastrointestinal illness." The company said it was likely caused by norovirus, a stomach bug that causes vomiting, diarrhea, nausea, and stomach pain. COVID-19 outbreaks occurred on many cruise ships during the pandemic.

The problem was the Neris had switched to a new, high-deductible health insurance plan to save money. The 2010 Affordable Care Act expanded access to health insurance, so companies were faced with covering more people than ever before. But the epinephrine auto-injectors — which deliver a shot of epinephrine and are the only emergency medicine available for life-threatening allergic reactions — usually are not. But AHIP (formerly known as America’s Health Insurance Plans), a group that represents such companies, said drug manufacturers are to blame. Fight it with your health care provider, fight it with your insurance company.”“No almost never means no in health insurance,” he said.

☆ 2 tips for adopting a furry pet — even if you have allergies
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-10 | by ( Renée Onque | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Having a cute and cuddly pet can be an experience like no other. But for some people, furry animals can trigger their allergies. And the symptoms aren't always as simple as sneezing every now and then, Parikh tells CNBC Make It. But if you have allergies, it doesn't mean that you won't ever be able to adopt a furry friend, Parikh says. Here's what she recommends doing to make sure you're adopting the "purr-fect" companion.

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