The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today announced a program of accelerated payments to Medicare Part A providers and advance payments to Part B providers to help stem the immense financial fallout of the February cyberattack on the claims-processing systems of Change Healthcare, a subisidiary of UnitedHealth Group.

The move comes in the wake of forceful advocacy from the AMA calling for additional relief for physicians given the estimated $100 million daily impact of the outage on the health care industry.

My latest for the AMA. Read the whole shebang.