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Hospitals, providers still scrambling to get paid after Change Healthcare cyberattack

By Alan Goforth

Any prolonged disruption of the health care tech company's systems "will negatively impact many hospitals' ability to offer the full set of health-care services," wrote the American Hospital Association to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra.

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