HHS: Office for Civil Rights (OCR) Issues Letter and Opens Investigation of Change Healthcare Cyberattack

OCR issued a “Dear Colleague” letter addressing the cybersecurity incident impacting Change Healthcare, a unit of UnitedHealthcare Group, and many other health care entities. The cyberattack is disrupting health care and billing information operations nationwide and poses a direct threat to critically needed patient care and essential operations of the health care industry.

Read the full letter from OCR.