Cyberattack leaves patients facing the choice to pay – or wait for their prescriptions | CNN Business

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As a cyberattack continues to disrupt insurance processing at pharmacies across the United States, people like Mara Furlich are facing a stark choice: Pay, at least initially, out of pocket for critical care or risk the health consequences of not getting treatment.

Furlich, a 32-year-old Detroit social worker, went to a CVS pharmacy in the suburbs on Wednesday to get a Paxlovid prescription filled as her Covid-19 symptoms worsened, she told CNN.

But the pharmacy couldn’t bill her, and neither could multiple other pharmacies in the area. Nervous about a past case of

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