“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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Locations:
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