LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The ransomware assault crippling Nevada’s providers can be impacting the state’s means to pay contractors and distributors.
An e-mail supplied to eight Information Now revealed that the Ageing and Incapacity Providers Division advised distributors that no “state payment systems are working.”
“No vendor for the state, regardless of department or division, is being paid right now. I have been given no timeline from the Governor’s Technology Office as to when those payment systems may be operational again,” ADSD Deputy Administrator Jessica Adams wrote.
The e-mail was shared by a vendor awaiting fee.
“We are having to find, myself as the business owner, having to find other ways to pay our staff because they have families to feed. They have kids in school. They have lives to lead that I need to make sure that their rent is going to get paid,” Jessica, who did not need her final title used over considerations it might influence her enterprise, advised 8 Information Now. “It’s made it really, really hard for us.”
Jessica works in behavioral well being and depends on Medicaid funds. She hasn’t been paid for work performed in July.
The best way it really works is the federal authorities distributes Medicaid funds to states, and the states, in flip, pay contractors and distributors.
At present, companies whose shoppers use Medicaid do not get paid.
Jessica advised 8 Information Now she observed issues final week with the state not processing her funds, however she could not get a solution then. She circled again with the Ageing and Incapacity Providers Division on Monday after seeing the information of the hack.
“It was only when this all happened that they went ‘Oh, actually we had to shut the system down on Saturday because it wasn’t working correctly and it wasn’t talking to Medicaid correctly, and all those things that say paid, weren’t actually paid,'” she stated.
The state has not supplied a timetable but on when the fee system might be operational.
