UnitedHealth Group has advanced more than $3.3 billion in loans to care providers impacted by a cyberattack on the U.S. healthcare conglomerate' tech unit last month.
Cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike believes United Healthcare may have lost $22 million after paying cybercriminals, who pocketed the money without sending it to the original hackers.
The federal process for resolving billing disputes for out-of-network care has to date yielded payouts well above what Medicare and most in-network private insurers would pay providers.