UnitedHealth Group’s first-quarter earnings report Tuesday will mark the health-care giant’s first major public comments since a cyberattack on its Change Healthcare billing and payments subsidiary in February, which has led to the largest disruption in U.S. health care since the Covid pandemic.
“Everybody looks to United as the bellwether of all of health-care services. This will be different,” said Lisa Gill, managing director and health care analyst at JPMorgan.
The data breach at the Change Healthcare unit forced the firm to take down its massive billing and payment processing service. While the company has restored services for pharmacies, the outage has continued to disrupt operations for health-care providers across the country.
Change Healthcare is a subsidiary of UnitedHealth’s sprawling Optum division, which includes 90,000 doctors under the Optum Care unit and one of the…
