Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital caps cash at $100 per person in its proposed data-breach settlement, and claims are due November 12, 2026. The ceiling covers both kinds of cash on offer, documented out-of-pocket losses and attested time, so a bigger loss does not mean a bigger check. The cause is the hospital’s July 2025 cyberattack.
The class is built from a mailing list, not a patient roster. The court defined it as all persons who were sent written notification of the data incident, and the claim site lists the notification mailing as August 14, 2026. Anyone holding that letter is in the class, with the court’s final approval hearing still ahead on December 7.
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A $100 ceiling shared by two kinds of cash
The administrator’s FAQ states the limit in one line: a claimant’s total across both cash categories cannot exceed $100.00. That makes $100 a ceiling, not a payment. Nobody is promised that amount for filing, and what any one person receives depends on what is documented or attested.
The first category reimburses out-of-pocket losses, up to $100, and each loss must be documented. The loss has to fall between July 14, 2025 and November 12, 2026, a window that runs through the last day to file. A fraud charge or card-replacement fee from this week still sits inside it.
The second category pays for time. A claimant can attest to up to four hours at $25.00 an hour, which tops out at $100.00, and must briefly describe how the hours were spent. Four attested hours alone reach the whole ceiling.
Because both categories draw on the same $100, the arithmetic is short. Someone with $30 in documented losses and two attested hours, worth $50, would reach $80. Someone who attests to four hours is already at $100, and a receipt added on top changes nothing.
What the hospital says was exposed, and the monitoring that comes with it
The claim site says the cyberattack reached files that may have held names, dates of birth, health insurance information, billing information and medical treatment information. The benefits include protection aimed at medical identity theft, which fits that list of exposed records.
Class members are offered two years of CyEx Medical Shield Complete, which comes with $1 million of medical identity theft insurance, according to the FAQ. The monitoring sits outside the cash ceiling, so using it does not draw down the $100.
Monitoring watches for misuse. It does not lock anything. The Federal Trade Commission says that while a credit freeze is in place, nobody can open a new credit account in the person’s name, that placing or lifting one costs nothing, and that it is set with Equifax, Experian and TransUnion.
How the November 12 cutoff works, and what follows it
Online claims must be submitted by November 12, 2026, through the settlement’s online claim form. Mailed claims must be postmarked by the same date and sent to SBAMH Data Incident Settlement, c/o Settlement Administrator, P.O. Box 25226, Santa Ana, CA 92799-9958. The toll-free line, (833) 421-7273, can supply a paper form.
The deadline to opt out of the settlement or object to it was October 13, 2026, so that choice has passed. What remains open is whether to file. A claim sent after November 12 is outside the window.
The case is pending in the District Court of Butler County, Kansas, Case No. BU-2025-CV-000185. The final approval hearing is set for December 7, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. Central, by Zoom, and the FAQ warns that the date and time may change.
No cash moves before that. The FAQ says payments are distributed only if the court grants final approval and after any appeals are resolved, and it says it does not know whether appeals will be filed or how long they would take. No payment date is posted.
The case costs are listed too. The hospital is to pay $150,000 in attorneys’ fees and costs and $1,500 to each class representative, and the FAQ gives no total settlement fund. The only dollar limit it states for class members is the $100 ceiling.
Three dates frame the claim. Notices were mailed August 14, 2026, claims close November 12, and the court hears the case December 7, so the claim deadline lands 25 days before the judge acts. A claim does not wait on that ruling. It has to be filed first, and only the payment waits.
The court’s class definition leaves out the judge and the judge’s family and staff, and anyone who perpetrated the data incident. Questions go to the administrator at info@SBAMHDataSettlement.com or the toll-free number, and a mailed claim can use the printable form posted on the claim site.
Is $100 worth the paperwork?
For many class members the cash is small and the form is short. Someone without receipts can reach the full $100 by attesting to four hours, and someone with receipts gains nothing past $100. Either route starts with the same claim, filed by the same date.
The harder question is the calendar. A mailed claim has to carry a November 12 postmark, and the hearing a month later does not reopen the window. Anyone holding the August letter has 17 days left to decide how to file.
Filing against the November 12 cutoff at Susan B. Allen?
A claim postmarked November 13 earns nothing, and a hospital letter mailed in August is easy to lose. With only $100 on the table, a wrong date on the form, such as the July 14, 2025 to November 12, 2026 loss window, can cost the whole payment.
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This article was produced with AI assistance and edited for accuracy against the sources linked above.
