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Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Premera Faces 38 Class-Action Lawsuits Over Cyberattack
With less than a week left to apply, about 830,000 of almost 11 million current and former insurance customers have registered for credit monitoring and identity-theft protection after their personal and medical information may have been compromised in a security breach that Premera announced in March. Mountlake Terrace-based Premera maintains that it does not 鈥渉ave any evidence that there was any criminal activity on anyone鈥檚 account as a result of the cyberattack,鈥 company spokeswoman Melanie Coon said in an email statement. (Garnick, 9/24)
Getting a prescription filled at Walgreens may take a lot longer than usual over the next few days due to an ongoing outage of the drugstore chain鈥檚 pharmacy computer database. Pharmacists have been filling prescriptions manually since the system went down Tuesday morning, causing delays for customers at all 8,200 Walgreens drugstores across the U.S., a company spokesman said Thursday. (9/24)