Published
September 8, 2026
People whose private information was potentially compromised in the October 2025 cyberattack on Regional Urology and Ochsner LSU Health may qualify to claim either a flat $40 cash payment with no proof, or instead a year of medical monitoring together with up to $5,000 in documented out-of-pocket losses, from the Regional Urology data breach class action settlement. Claims close November 16, 2026, but the deadline to opt out or object falls a month earlier, on October 16, 2026.
Current Status
Claims are open. The deadline to submit a Claim Form is November 16, 2026, online or by mail with a November 16, 2026 postmark. The notice gives a date with no cutoff time or timezone, so only the date is published here. The final approval hearing is set for October 19, 2026 at 9:30 a.m. Central Time at the District Court for the Parish of Caddo in Shreveport, Louisiana. No final approval order has been entered and no payment date has been announced.The schedule runs in an order that catches people out. The hearing lands on October 19, nearly a month before the claim window shuts, and the deadline to opt out or object is October 16 — three days before the hearing. Waiting to see how the hearing goes before deciding whether to stay in is therefore not an option: both of those doors close first. Opting out is the only way to keep the right to sue Regional Urology or Ochsner LSU Health separately over this incident.
Status
Claims Open
Claim Deadline
November 16, 2026
Online or mailed postmark · opt out or object a month earlier, by October 16, 2026 · final approval hearing October 19, 2026
Estimated Payout
$40 flat, or up to $5,000
The two are alternatives, not a stack: a flat $40 with no proof, or instead a year of CyEx Medical Shield Complete monitoring with $1M of medical identity theft insurance plus documented losses capped at $5,000
Proof Required
Yes — ID to file online
A LoginID and PIN from the notice are required to open the online form · a paper form can be mailed without one · receipts needed for the loss tier, but not for the $40
What Changed Recently?
The claim window opened this fall, less than a year after the attack. The claim form dates the incident precisely: it occurred on October 5, 2025, and OLHS identified it five days later, on October 10, 2025. The notice describes it as a targeted cyberattack on the computer systems of Regional Urology and Ochsner LSU Health — together referred to as OLHS throughout the settlement documents — during which certain files containing private information were accessed.The categories of information named in the notice are the ones that matter most in a medical breach: name, Social Security number, date of birth, medical record number, and information related to care received at Regional Urology.
One detail in that description is easy to skim past and worth stopping on. The care information at issue is described as relating to care received at Regional Urology prior to December 31, 2022. The attack happened in October 2025, but the records it reached concern treatment from before the end of 2022 — so the people affected include former patients who may not have been to the practice in years, and who have no particular reason to be watching for a letter from it. A Social Security number and a date of birth do not expire; neither does the exposure.
OLHS denies that it did anything wrong, and the notice states plainly that the court has not decided who is right. The parties agreed to settle to avoid the costs, risks, disruptions and uncertainties of continuing the litigation. The case is captioned Clark v. Regional Urology, LLC, et al., Case No. 662345, in the District Court for the Parish of Caddo, Louisiana.
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Who Qualifies?
The court defined the class in one sentence: all living individuals in the United States whose private information was potentially compromised in the data incident.Two words in that definition do real work. Potentially is broad — it does not require anyone to show that their information was actually misused, or even that it was confirmed as accessed rather than exposed. Living is narrow, and it is the limit worth noticing: the class does not reach the estates of patients who have died, which on a practice whose exposed records date to 2022 and earlier is not a hypothetical exclusion.
In practice OLHS's records decide who is in. The notice tells its recipients directly that OLHS's records indicate they are class members entitled to benefits, and adds that they may have received an earlier notice from OLHS about the incident itself. Anyone unsure whether they are covered can ask the administrator through the settlement website's contact page.
Excluded from the class are the parents, subsidiaries, directors, officers, members and agents of the defendants, along with any entity in which a defendant has a controlling interest; governmental entities; the judge assigned to the action, that judge's immediate family and court staff; everyone who timely opts out; and any person found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be criminally guilty of initiating, causing, aiding or abetting the incident, or who pleads nolo contendere to such a charge.
How Much Can You Get?
This settlement has two branches, and they are alternatives rather than a stack. Getting that wrong is the single most likely way to file a claim that pays less than it should have.Branch one — the flat $40. A one-time $40 Alternative Cash Payment. The notice says you do not have to provide any proof or explanation to claim it. It is a single checkbox on the form.
Branch two — monitoring and documented losses. Instead of the $40, a class member may claim either or both of:
- One year of CyEx Medical Shield Complete. Medical monitoring carrying $1 million of medical identity theft insurance, covering healthcare insurance ID exposure, medical record number exposure, and unauthorized health savings account spending, with access to a fraud resolution agent if something surfaces. This is medical-identity monitoring rather than ordinary credit monitoring, which matches what was exposed.
- Documented out-of-pocket losses, up to $5,000. Actual, documented, unreimbursed losses caused by the incident — losses from identity theft or fraud, fees for credit reports or credit monitoring or freezing and unfreezing credit, the cost of replacing IDs, and postage to contact banks by mail.
The claim form enforces the split in capital letters. Under the medical monitoring box and under the out-of-pocket losses box it says not to claim that benefit if you are claiming the payment in Section IV; under the $40 box it says not to claim that payment if you are claiming benefits from Sections II or III. There is no partial overlap and no way to take the $40 alongside the monitoring.
Which branch is worth more is a question only the class member can answer, and the settlement documents do not recommend either. What the documents do establish is the shape of the trade: the $40 is immediate and unconditional, while the other branch offers a year of monitoring plus reimbursement of real money already spent. Anyone who has actually incurred an expense because of this incident gives up the ability to recover it by taking the $40.
No settlement fund is disclosed, and fees do not come out of the payments. Neither the notice nor the claim form names a common fund, a cap on total payouts, or any pro rata reduction. The notice states that class counsel will ask the court to approve $265,000 as reasonable attorneys' fees and reimbursement of litigation costs, and that OLHS pays it — as OLHS also pays the $3,000 service award sought for each class representative. Class benefits are therefore not reduced by any of those amounts, which is different from a common-fund settlement where every such line item is subtracted before class members are paid.
One limit applies to the loss tier throughout: you cannot claim a payment for expenses that a third party has already reimbursed.
What Proof or Notice ID Is Required?
The identifier and the documentation are separate questions here, and the answer to each depends on the route.The identifier. The settlement website is explicit: to start the online claim form you must log in with your LoginID and PIN, and both are printed on the notice that was mailed to you. That single gate sits in front of the fastest way to file, which under OCA's standard makes this a proof-required settlement — someone who never received the notice, or who threw it away, cannot simply open the form and claim.
There are two documented ways around it. The printed Claim Form asks only for a "Login ID (if known)," so a paper form can be completed and mailed without one. And a class member who cannot locate their credentials can ask the administrator to resend them through the settlement website's contact page, supplying their full name and mailing address. Both are real, and neither turns this into a no-proof settlement: one is an envelope rather than a website, and the other still depends on being findable in the administrator's records.
The documentation. The $40 needs none — no proof, no explanation, just the sworn attestation at the end of the form. Medical monitoring needs none either; it is a checkbox.
The out-of-pocket loss tier is the opposite. It requires proof such as bank statements or receipts showing what was spent or lost, and the notice states that self-prepared notes or papers may be submitted to explain or support other proof but are not by themselves enough to make a valid claim. The proof should also show that the expense was because of this incident, not merely that it happened. The form asks for a line-by-line table describing each document and its amount.
A discrepancy in the loss window is worth knowing about. The notice and the settlement website both say the losses must have occurred between October 5, 2025 and November 16, 2026 — the full claim period. Section III of the printed Claim Form instead says eligible losses include those incurred after October 5, 2025 "up to the date of filing your Claim." Read literally, the claim form's version means filing early shortens your own eligible window, while the notice's version does not. The notice is the court-authorized document and states the broader period; anyone with losses still accruing should raise the point with the administrator rather than assume which controls.
Only one Claim Form per person is permitted, online or on paper, and every claim is subject to verification. The administrator may ask for supplemental information before treating a claim as complete and valid.
What Is the Deadline?
Three deadlines on two dates, and the later one is not the urgent one.Claims: November 16, 2026. Online submissions must be completed by that date. A mailed Claim Form, with any supporting documentation, must be postmarked no later than that date.
Exclusions: October 16, 2026. A Request for Exclusion must be in writing and must give the name of the litigation, Clark v. Regional Urology, LLC, et al., Case No. 662345, pending in the District Court for the Parish of Caddo, Louisiana; your full name, mailing address, telephone number and email address; your personal signature; and the words "Request for Exclusion" or a clear equivalent statement that you do not want to participate. You may exclude only yourself, not anyone else, and the request must be postmarked by October 16, 2026.
Objections: October 16, 2026. A complete objection must be filed with the Clerk of Court by that date, with copies sent to the administrator, class counsel and counsel for the defendants. The notice sets out nine requirements, and says the objection must meet each one to be valid: the case name and number; your full name, mailing address, telephone number and email address; information proving you are a class member, such as the notice you received; a clear description of every reason you object, with any legal support; your own lawyer's name, bar number and contact information if you have hired one; a list of every case in which you or your lawyer have objected in the past five years, with courts, orders and civil action numbers; a full list of any witnesses or documents you plan to bring to the hearing; whether you or your lawyer want to speak at the hearing; and your own signature — the notice specifies that a lawyer's signature alone is not sufficient.
Objectors should also know that the notice reserves the right of class counsel and defense counsel to conduct limited discovery on any objector or objector's counsel.
Objecting and excluding are opposites, not a pair. You can object only if you stay in, and a class member who opts out has no standing to object because the settlement no longer affects them. The notice is explicit on one point that is not always true elsewhere: a class member who objects may still file a claim for settlement benefits.
How Do You Take Action?
File online at the official settlement website, Regional Urology Data Settlement.com, using the LoginID and PIN from your notice. The Claim Form can also be downloaded from the site, printed and returned to the administrator by mail, or submitted as an electronic image; the administrator can send a paper copy on request through the site's contact page.The form is six sections. Section I is your name and contact information, with an instruction to notify the administrator if it changes after you file. Sections II, III and IV are the three benefit boxes, with the documentation table under the loss tier. Section V is the payment method, and Section VI is the sworn attestation and signature.
Choose an electronic payment method if you can. The form offers PayPal, Venmo, Zelle, a virtual prepaid card, or a physical check mailed to the address in Section I. The first four arrive without depending on the postal address the administrator has on file, which on a class drawn from patient records that are several years old is the more likely thing to be out of date.
There is a separate box for Medicare beneficiaries. A final page of the claim form asks class members to check a box if they were a Medicare beneficiary at any point from October 5, 2025 to the present and are seeking benefits related to emotional distress, and to contact the administrator so that additional information required for Medicare reporting can be provided. The box stays unchecked for anyone who was not a Medicare beneficiary in that period, and for anyone who was but is not seeking reimbursement for emotional distress.
Staying in the class means giving up the right to be part of any other lawsuit against OLHS about the issues this settlement covers. The released claims are described in Section XI of the Settlement Agreement, which is posted on the settlement website. Doing nothing is the worst available outcome: a class member who ignores the notice is bound by that release, gives up the right to sue, and receives no benefit in exchange.
What Happens Next?
The next milestone is the final approval hearing on October 19, 2026 at 9:30 a.m. Central Time, at the District Court for the Parish of Caddo, Louisiana, in Shreveport. The court will decide whether to approve the settlement, how class counsel should be paid, and whether to award the service award payments sought for the class representatives, and it will consider any objections.Attending is optional. Class counsel will answer the court's questions, and the notice states that a timely filed objection is considered whether or not the objector appears. A class member may attend, or send their own lawyer, at their own expense; anyone who wants to speak must have asked for permission in a timely objection. The notice cautions that the date and time may change without further notice and directs class members to check the settlement website.
After that, the notice is candid about the wait rather than optimistic. If the court approves the settlement there may be appeals; it says outright that nobody knows whether appeals will be filed or how long resolving them would take. Settlement payments are distributed if the court grants final approval, and after any appeals are resolved. No payment date has been announced.
Sources and Verification
This page is based on the official settlement website and its FAQ, the court-authorized Notice of Proposed Class Action Settlement, and the Claim Form and Release in Clark v. Regional Urology, LLC, et al., Case No. 662345, District Court for the Parish of Caddo, Louisiana.- Official settlement website — Regional Urology Data Settlement (claim portal, deadlines, court documents)
- Notice of Proposed Class Action Settlement (embedded below)
- Claim Form and Release (embedded below)
- Settlement website FAQs, questions 1 through 21 (embedded below)
Medical practices keep producing these cases, and they tend to reach records long after the treatment they describe. For close comparisons, see the Highlands Oncology data breach settlement and the DAP Health data breach settlement, both specialty providers whose patient files were exposed. For context on how these cases work, read our explainer on the data breach class action, or browse the current roundup of open data breach settlements and the wider list of open class action settlements.
Questions
Who is eligible for the Regional Urology data breach settlement?
The court defined the class as all living individuals in the United States whose private information was potentially compromised in the October 2025 data incident at Regional Urology and Ochsner LSU Health. OLHS's records decide who that is, and the notice tells recipients that those records identify them as class members. Excluded are the parents, subsidiaries, directors, officers, members and agents of the defendants and any entity they control; governmental entities; the assigned judge, that judge's immediate family and court staff; anyone who timely opts out; and anyone found criminally responsible for the incident.
How much does the Regional Urology settlement pay?
It depends which of two branches you pick, because they are alternatives rather than a stack. One branch is a flat $40 Alternative Cash Payment that needs no proof and no explanation. The other branch is one year of CyEx Medical Shield Complete medical monitoring with $1 million of medical identity theft insurance, and reimbursement of documented out-of-pocket losses up to $5,000, either or both. The claim form states in capitals under each section that you cannot claim across the two branches.
Do I need a LoginID and PIN to file a Regional Urology claim?
To file online, yes. The settlement website says you must log in with the LoginID and PIN printed on the notice that was sent to you before the online claim form will open. The printed claim form is different: it lists the Login ID as optional, so a paper form can be completed and mailed without one. Under OCA's standard the settlement is still proof-required, because someone who never received the notice cannot simply log in and file.
Should I take the $40 or the medical monitoring in the Regional Urology settlement?
The settlement documents do not recommend either, and the choice turns on facts only the class member knows. The $40 is immediate, unconditional and needs no paperwork. The other branch is worth more on paper — a year of monitoring for healthcare insurance ID exposure, medical record number exposure and unauthorized health savings account spending, carrying $1 million of medical identity theft insurance, plus up to $5,000 of documented losses. Anyone who has already spent money because of this incident forfeits reimbursement of it by taking the $40.
Why is the Regional Urology final approval hearing before the claim deadline?
That is how the court set the schedule. The final approval hearing is October 19, 2026, and the claim deadline is November 16, 2026, nearly a month later. The opt-out and objection deadline of October 16, 2026 falls three days before the hearing. The practical consequence is that waiting to see how the hearing goes before deciding whether to opt out is not possible, and the notice warns that the hearing date and time may change without further notice.
Do attorneys' fees come out of the Regional Urology settlement payments?
No. The notice states that class counsel will ask the court to approve $265,000 as reasonable attorneys' fees and reimbursement of litigation costs, and that this amount will be paid by OLHS. The same is true of the $3,000 service award sought for each class representative. No common settlement fund is disclosed anywhere in the notice or the claim form, so the class benefits are not reduced by fees, costs or service awards, and there is no pro rata reduction described.
Official Settlement Notice
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Settlement Amount
No fund disclosed
Benefits, monitoring, fees and service awards all paid by OLHS · no cap or pro rata reduction stated in the notice
Case Title
Clark v. Regional Urology, LLC, et al.
Case Number
662345
Court
District Court for the Parish of Caddo, Louisiana (First Judicial District)
Final Approval Hearing
October 19, 2026 at 9:30 AM CT
Shreveport, LA · date and time may change without further notice
Class Counsel
Chestnut Cambronne PA · Siri & Glimstad, LLP
Administrator
Simpluris
Official Website
Regional Urology Data Settlement.com
