Garnet Health Settlements: Patient Privacy and 403(b) Plan

Two separate class action settlements involving Garnet Health are moving through the courts, and they cover different people for different reasons. One pays former patients whose data was allegedly shared with Meta and Google through website tracking pixels. The other pays current and former employees who participated in the Garnet Health Medical Center 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan. Eligibility, payment amounts, and deadlines are different for each. If you think you qualify, the case you belong to depends on your relationship to Garnet Health.

The Patient Data Privacy Settlement

This settlement resolves Gay et al. v. Garnet Health, filed November 14, 2025, in the Supreme Court of New York, Kings County (Index No. 523537/2025).¹ The lawsuit alleged Garnet Health embedded Meta Pixel and Google Analytics tracking tools on its public website and MyChart patient portal, transmitting patient information — including health conditions and searches for medical treatment — to Meta and Google without consent.² Garnet Health denies wrongdoing. The case does not involve a cyberattack or theft of medical records.³

Who Is Eligible

The class covers roughly 153,000 current and former Garnet Health patients who had a MyChart account with an “alive” status between May 7, 2020, and August 10, 2023.¹ If you received a notice with a class member ID, you are in the class.

What You Can Get

Every class member who files a valid claim receives a one-time payment of $19.50, with no proof of harm required.¹ Class members can also enroll in 12 months of Dashlane Premium, a privacy monitoring service that includes dark web monitoring, phishing protection, and VPN access.⁴

Separately, Garnet Health agreed to stop using third-party digital analytics technologies on its website for at least two years, with a narrow exception for performance analytics using de-identified data under a business associate agreement.¹

How to File

You can submit a claim online at GarnetHealthSettlement.com using the unique class member ID from your notice, or download a paper form and mail it in.⁵ The mailing address is:

Gay et al. v. Garnet Health
c/o Kroll Settlement Administration
P.O. Box 225391
New York, NY 10150-5391

Whether you file online or by mail, the deadline is April 16, 2026. Mailed forms must be postmarked by that date. Questions can go to Kroll Settlement Administration at (833) 754-8995.⁵

When You’ll Be Paid

The court granted preliminary approval on November 19, 2025, and the final approval hearing was scheduled for April 13, 2026, before Judge Aaron Maslow.¹⁵ The settlement website’s documents page lists a final approval order among the available filings.⁶ The deadline to object or opt out passed on March 17, 2026. Payments go out only after any appeals are resolved.

The 403(b) Retirement Plan Settlement

The second case, George et al. v. Garnet Health Medical Center (Case No. 7:24-cv-6422, S.D.N.Y.), has nothing to do with patient data. Four employees sued in August 2024, alleging violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) in the management of the Garnet Health Medical Center 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan.⁷⁸ The complaint claimed the plan lost more than $12 million to high fees and underperforming investments.⁹ Garnet Health denied all claims.

Who Is Eligible

The class includes approximately 5,000 current and former participants in, or beneficiaries of, the plan from August 26, 2018, through December 2, 2025.⁷

What You Can Get

Garnet Health agreed to pay $4.6 million, which the court found to be roughly 22% of the maximum estimated damages.¹⁰ After court-approved deductions, the remainder is distributed to class members under an allocation plan. The approved deductions are:

Attorneys’ fees of $1,533,333.33, or one-third of the gross fund
Litigation expenses of $47,120.10
Settlement administration fees of $29,895.00 to Atticus Administration
Independent fiduciary fees of $15,000.00 to Fiduciary Counselors, Inc.
Class representative service awards of $7,500 each to Justin George, Arienne Patzelt, Melissa Zuber, and Tsu Han Poh-Gracia¹¹

Current plan participants have their share deposited directly into their retirement accounts. Former participants who no longer have an account receive a check unless they submitted a rollover form by April 20, 2026. The settlement also requires plan fiduciaries to conduct a request for proposals for the plan’s investment advisor and recordkeeping services within three years.⁷

Case Status

Judge Philip M. Halpern granted preliminary approval on December 2, 2025.¹² He held the fairness hearing on April 20, 2026, and issued a final order the same day approving the settlement as “fair, reasonable, and adequate.” No objections were filed. The case is closed, and distribution follows the allocation plan without any claim form required from most class members.¹¹

Which Settlement Applies to You

These are independent cases with independent classes. Being a Garnet Health patient does not put you in the retirement plan class, and being a plan participant does not put you in the patient data class. It’s possible to qualify for both if you were both an employee-participant and a MyChart patient during the class periods, but each requires its own filing steps and pays from its own fund.

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