UnitedHealth Exploits an ‘Emergency’ It Created

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UnitedHealth Exploits an ‘Emergency’ It Created

https://prospect.org/health/2024-03-10-unitedhealth-exploits-emergency-change-ransomware-oregon/

The Change ransomware attack left an Oregon medical practice with an empty bank account, and only one quick way to fix it: sell to UnitedHealth.

UnitedHealth Exploits an ‘Emergency’ It Created

Last Thursday, the medical colossus UnitedHealthcare applied for an emergency exemption that would fast-track its takeover of a medical practice in Corvallis, Oregon, in a letter warning regulators that the practice might close its doors if the merger were not approved right away.