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STAT+: Explaining Change Healthcare and the gravity of its cyberattack

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The cyberattack on Change Healthcare has fractured the country’s health care payment infrastructure. He didn’t get into health economics to study the payment plumbing system, but understanding basic concepts about companies like Change Healthcare can illuminate the gravity of what is going on now.

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JPM Healthcare Conference 2024

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Morgan Healthcare Conference, the largest event of its kind, will take place in San Francisco, Jan. The annual J.P. 8-11, 2024 — setting the stage for the rest of the year in health, science, and medicine. The event is a gathering space for investors, entrepreneurs, and others. 8 looking at what’s next in biotech.

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STAT+: Burning questions for the 2024 JPM Healthcare Conference

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Morgan Healthcare Conference is upon us, bringing its frenetic meetings, crowded hallways, and hotel rooms so expensive that even the pharmaceutical industry complains about what a free market does to the prices of scarce goods.

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STAT+: Change Healthcare cyber attack outage could persist for weeks, UnitedHealth Group executive suggests

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The outage caused by the Change Healthcare cyberattack could last weeks, a top UnitedHealth executive suggested in a Tuesday conference call with hospital cybersecurity officers, according to a recording obtained by STAT.

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STAT+: UnitedHealth reaffirms financial outlook despite up to $1.6 billion hit from Change Healthcare cyberattack

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Despite the Change Healthcare cyberattack, the health insurance, provider, and technology conglomerate reaffirmed its adjusted earnings outlook for the year, and its share price grew more than 5% by market close.

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STAT+: Large insurers say up to one-quarter of claims run through Change Healthcare

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Some of the country’s biggest health insurers said Tuesday that up to one-quarter of their claims are run through Change Healthcare, UnitedHealth Group’s technology company that sustained a massive cyberattack two weeks ago.

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STAT+: GE HealthCare CEO named chair of medical device lobby AdvaMed’s new imaging division

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AdvaMed named Peter Arduini, CEO of GE HealthCare, chair of its board of directors on Monday. Arduini has been GE HealthCare’s CEO since January 2022; before that, he was the CEO of neurosurgery device company Integra LifeSciences. The announcement formalizes his position, which he will serve in for two years.

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