Military pharmacies have returned to full operations following a crippling cyberattack in February on the company that provides the Defense Health Agency's prescription processing program.
A Defense Health Agency spokesman said Tuesday that normal operations were restored April 2 between military pharmacies and Change Healthcare, one of the country's largest commercial prescription processors.
“A cyberattack on Change Healthcare … was detected on Feb. 21, 2024. [Change Healthcare] severed all connectivity to DoD pharmacy systems on Feb. 22, 2024. As of April 2, 2024, normal operations have been restored for pharmacies at military clinics and hospitals,” DHA spokesman Peter Graves said in an email to Military.com.
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The restoration was first reported by Military Times.
Retail pharmacies across the country, including those aboard military installations, started experiencing disruptions due to the cyberattack Feb. 21 on Change Healthcare. As a result of the breach, military pharmacies were forced to fill prescriptions manually, with priority given to urgent prescriptions.
With the recovery, patients will be able to “access pharmacy services as usual,” Graves said.
He added that beneficiaries don't need to take any action unless they used a Tricare network pharmacy and had to pay for their prescriptions during the outage. In that…
