To aid in this transition, Change owner UnitedHealth Group has advanced more than $2 billion in payments through multiple initiatives. 

The imaging chain has three locations and serves patients across eastern North Carolina.

The unnamed U.S. university conducts about 2 million imaging exams each year across more than 10 hospitals. 

The Washington state-based practice launched an investigation, consulted with cybersecurity experts and is offering credit-monitoring services. 

The department is urging managed care plans to relax prior authorization requirements during the outage and instructing MACs to accept paper claims. 

“There’s a lot of scrambling among our members,” Radiology Business Management Association Executive Director Bob Still said Monday. 

The deal is with an unspecified radiology organization spanning multiple states, operating more than 20 sites that handle 2 million-plus medical images per year. 

The new collaboration is designed to ensure patients who may face an increased risk of heart disease receive the follow-up care they need.