Baptist Health Class Action Settlement Resolves Data Breach Lawsuit

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Baptist Health, doing business as Baptist Health Medical Center - Drew County, has agreed to a class action settlement to resolve a lawsuit that alleged the healthcare organization failed to adequately protect confidential information from a data breach that occurred between April and July 2024.    

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The Baptist Health class action settlement received preliminary approval from the court in September 2026. Eligible for the settlement are all individuals whose private information was potentially impacted in the Baptist Health Medical Center - Drew County data breach, including all who received notice of the data incident.

Court documents state that approximately 6,886 people are included in the settlement class.

The court-authorized Baptist Health data breach settlement website can be found at BHSettlement.com.

Class members who file a timely, valid claim form can receive up to $400 for documented “ordinary” losses incurred between April 22, 2024 and December 8, 2026 due to the data breach. This benefit covers out-of-pocket costs for credit reports, credit monitoring, freezing/unfreezing credit, replacement IDs, postage to contact banks, and more.

In lieu of an “ordinary” documented-loss payment, class members can submit a claim form to receive up to $4,000 for documented unreimbursed losses from identity theft or fraud incurred during the same timeframe that are not already covered by the ordinary-loss benefit.

Class members must submit proof, such as receipts, to receive either documented-loss payment.

In addition, class members can submit a claim to receive reimbursement for up to four hours of lost time spent responding to the data incident, at a rate of $20 per hour.

Lastly, class members can elect on their claim form to receive two years of one-bureau credit monitoring, which includes dark web scanning, public records monitoring, and identity theft insurance.

To file a Baptist Health Medical Center settlement claim form online, class members can navigate to this page and enter the login ID and PIN found on their copy of the settlement notice. Alternatively, class members can download a PDF claim form to print, complete and return by mail to the settlement administrator.

All Baptist Health settlement claim forms must be submitted online or postmarked by December 8, 2026.

The court will determine whether to grant final approval to the Baptist Health class action settlement following a hearing on February 4, 2027. Benefits will begin to be made available to class members only after final approval has been granted and any appeals have been resolved.

The Baptist Health class action lawsuit alleged that the Arkansas-based healthcare organization failed to implement adequate cybersecurity measures to protect personal information from a data breach that impacted Baptist Health Medical Center - Drew County between April 22 and July 8, 2024.

Court documents state that personal information that may have been impacted by the data incident included names, addresses, dates of birth, diagnoses and treatment information, and provider names.

Head to ClassAction.org’s settlements page for a complete list of data breach settlements.