Senators' letter demands accountability from UHG

Senators Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) announced Friday that they wrote to UnitedHealth Group Chief Executive Officer Andrew Witty asking a series of questions relating to what they called UHG’s lack of “sufficient redundancy to prevent an outage,” a timeline of events relating to the February 21 ransomware attack and how UHG is filling the revenue gap providers are experiencing.

The senators requested…