$625K Hypertension Nephrology Associates Settlement Ends Class Action Over January 2024 Data Breach

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Hypertension Nephrology Associates, P.C., has agreed to a $625,000 settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit that alleged the Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, healthcare company failed to protect patients’ private health information from a January 2024 data breach.

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The Hypertension Nephrology Associates class action settlement received preliminary approval from the court on September 22, 2025 and covers all individuals in the United States who were sent notice that their personal information was accessed, stolen or compromised due to the January 2024 HNA data breach.

According to settlement documents, the data breach exposed the information of approximately 39,491 people.

The court-approved website for the Hypertension Nephrology Associates settlement can be found at HNADataSettlement.com.

According to the settlement website, class members who submit a timely, valid claim form for a documented loss payment are eligible to receive up to $5,000 for expenses incurred because of the data breach. Claim forms for documented-loss reimbursement must include reasonable documentation, such as phone records or receipts, supporting a class member’s data breach-related losses, the settlement website explains.

In the alternative, HNA settlement class members may submit a claim form to receive a one-time cash payment. Per settlement documents, the exact amount of the cash payouts from the Hypertension Nephrology Associates settlement will be determined by dividing the amount left in the settlement fund after all documented expenses and credit monitoring services are paid by the total number of timely, valid cash claims that elect to receive a cash payment.

Additionally, the settlement offers all class members two years of free credit monitoring and insurance services, regardless of whether a consumer has submitted a claim form for a settlement payment.  

To submit an HNA claim form online, class members can visit this page and log in with the settlement claim ID found in their copy of the settlement notice. Settlement class members who prefer to submit their claim form by mail can download a PDF of the claim form to print, fill out and mail to the settlement administrator.

All claim forms must be submitted online or postmarked by January 20, 2026.

The court will determine whether the class action settlement will receive final approval at a hearing on February 18, 2026. Compensation will begin to be distributed to class members after final approval has been granted and all appeals have been resolved.

The Hypertension Nephrology Associates class action lawsuit alleged that the healthcare provider failed to adequately safeguard patients’ private information, allowing opportunistic bad actors to access its network in June 2024. Per the complaint, the data breach was detected only after HNA employees discovered a ransom note hidden in their computer files.

The complaint alleged there was an “inexcusable delay” between the data breach and when notice was sent, and that HNA made only “meager attempts to ameliorate the effects of this data breach.”

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