An Imagined Town Hall With BlackCat Regarding Their Change Healthcare Extortion Process

Addressing the nightmare of dealing with United

Today's The Frontier Psychiatrist post is an imagined meeting where the BlackCat cyber hackers discuss why they haven't gotten paid from United Healthcare, yet. I was going to write a post about how to solve the change healthcare problem for individual practices, but apparently, that system is down on Sundays, just like the Medicare claims submission process:

Prior Coverage of the United Healthcare and Change Healthcare Cyber Attack include:

This Article.

And This One.

This Article.

Also, This One.

This One Too.

(Note: Our article identification product is down, for the time being).

[A Dark Warehouse, somewhere in Eastern Europe, this transcript was—with some irony—leaked from BlackCat HQ]

Thank you so much for coming, we appreciate your attention.

I am going to request that all cameras be off for this, out of respect for the culture at Optum.

I look forward to answering your questions. For the transcript, I just wanna make it clear that our transcribing system uses Change Healthcare, on the …