A Triangle small business owner is owed close to $200,000 after a cyberattack caused problems nationwide for pharmacies, hospital systems, and healthcare organizations.
Dr. Mary Affee Founder and Clinical Director of
Horizon Integrated Wellness Group
, said, “It’s pretty significant when we think about dollar amount.”
Affee provided documents that showed her practice, which provides mental health services in the Triangle is owed more than $188,000 for services it provided to patients since the cyberattack on a subsidiary of
, Change Healthcare.
We don’t want to stop seeing patients, but it’s becoming a challenge of sustaining where we are.
“We depend on the payments from the insurance company, and we certainly don’t want to burden our own patients with the responsibility as we have these contracts with the insurance companies,” Affee said.
showed you how the attack affected residents in Fayetteville from getting access to their prescriptions. That problem has since been fixed. Cape Fear Valley Health said its pharmacies have resumed insurance billing.