Schumer Calls for Accelerated Payment to Upstate Health Care Providers Impacted by Ransomware Attack

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer is calling for the Department of Health and Human Services to provide relief for impacted health care providers across upstate New York following a recent ransomware attack. Schumer, who held a video conference call with reporters on Tuesday, called on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to begin opening up accelerated payments, similar to those issued during the COVID-19 pandemic. He says CMS and HHS have heeded his calls to use the Advanced and Accelerated Payment Program...

Charles Schumer: shot in the arm for hospitals

The New York Democrat says unlocking those payments would get cash flowing immediately back to hospitals and address the adverse impact of the Change Healthcare cyberattack.