The American Hospital Association (AHA) sent a letter to UnitedHealth Group (UNH.N) assailing the company's efforts to restore its financial systems in the wake of a cyberattack on the health insurer's Change Healthcare unit.
AHA Richard Pollack wrote in a letter sent on Monday that a temporary assistance program put in place by UnitedHealth last week is "not even a band-aid" on the payment problems caused by the hack, and called the terms of the program "shockingly onerous."
"We need real solutions — not programs that sound good when they are announced but are fundamentally inadequate when you read the fine print," Pollack wrote in the letter to UnitedHealth Chief Operating Officer Dirk McMahon.
The Change hack was perpetrated by hackers who identified themselves as the "Blackcat" ransomware group.
