American Vision Partners Says 1.6 Million People Were Hit by Its 2023 Breach. Only About 258,070 of Them — Those Whose Social Security Numbers Were Exposed — Can Claim Cash From the $1.75 Million Settlement: Up to $3,000 With Receipts or a Pro Rata Share Without, Not Both. That Is $6.78 per Eligible Person Before Fees, by Our Arithmetic. Claims Close November 12, 2026.

If your letter from American Vision Partners mentioned your Social Security number, you can file for money. If it did not, this settlement most likely gives you no cash. That is the part of the deal the headlines leave out. The court-authorized Long Form Notice says the cyberattack, which the company discovered on or about November 14, 2023, reached “the information of approximately 1,600,000 individuals” — names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, contact details, and medical treatment and health insurance information. The settlement defines two classes, and they overlap.

The Damages Settlement Class is defined as “Approximately 258,070 U.S. residents whose Social Security Numbers and other personal information were compromised in the Data Incident.” Only this group may submit a claim for money from the $1,750,000 fund. The Injunctive Relief Class is “All individuals whose personal information is collected or maintained by Defendant” — a wider group that also contains the Damages Class; six plaintiffs are listed in both. What that class receives is a list of security commitments: a Chief Information Officer role, a cybersecurity steering committee, penetration testing by an outside vendor, third-party managed monitoring and firewall, better email security and disaster recovery, and regular risk assessments. The notice values those measures at “approximately $2,787,630” and says the defendants pay for them “separate and apart from the Damages Class Settlement Fund.”

By subtraction, about 1.34 million of the 1.6 million people affected are not in the Damages Class: for them the security measures are the whole settlement, and there is no claim form to file. The defendants are Medical Management Resource Group, L.L.C. (doing business as American Vision Partners), Barnet Dulaney Perkins Eye Center, PC, and Southwestern Eye Center, Ltd. They deny any wrongdoing, and no court has decided who was right. If you are not sure which group you are in, the notice points you to the administrator: (833) 630-5366, or in writing to Settlement Administrator – 83312, c/o Kroll Settlement Administration LLC, P.O. Box 225391, New York, NY 10150-5391.

Members of the Damages Settlement Class choose one of two payments. The notice says it twice, with an “OR” between them.

• Out-of-pocket expense claim, up to $3,000. Reimbursement of “documented out-of-pocket losses reasonably and fairly traceable to the Data Incident.” The notice lists unreimbursed fraud or identity-theft losses; professional fees, including attorneys’, accountants’ and credit-repair fees; costs of freezing or unfreezing credit; credit monitoring bought on or after November 2023 because of the incident; and smaller items such as notary, postage, copying, mileage, and per-minute phone charges. You need receipts or other documents you did not prepare yourself — “‘Self-prepared’ documents such as handwritten receipts are, by themselves, insufficient” — and an attestation that the loss came from this incident and not something else.
• Pro rata cash payment. No documents. The notice describes it only as a payment the administrator makes pro rata, “which may increase or decrease the pro rata cash payment, subject to the Settlement Fund cap.” It publishes no estimate of the amount.

That structure matters if you have a small documented cost. Unlike some recent breach deals that let you stack a no-proof payment on top of reimbursed losses, this one does not: a $40 credit-freeze fee claimed as an out-of-pocket loss replaces the pro rata payment rather than adding to it. There is no credit-monitoring benefit in the list of Damages Class Benefits.

To be paid electronically, the notice says in capitals, you must file online: “TO RECEIVE AN ELECTRONIC OR ACH PAYMENT FOR YOUR VALID CLAIM, YOU MUST FILE A CLAIM FORM ONLINE.” Paper claim forms go to the Kroll P.O. box above, postmarked by November 12, 2026.

These are our calculations from the numbers in the notice; neither the court nor the administrator has published a payment estimate. The notice says fees, costs and service awards are paid “from the Settlement Fund”; that the pro rata payments share what remains after them and after the documented-loss claims is our reading of a single $1.75 million fund, not a sentence in the notice.

• $1,750,000 ÷ 258,070 = $6.78 per member of the Damages Settlement Class, if every one of them filed and nothing came out first.
• Attorneys’ fees. Class counsel will ask for “33.33% of the value of the settlement” plus costs. The notice does not say whether that “value” includes the $2,787,630 put on the security measures. If the percentage is taken on the $1.75 million fund, it comes to about $583,300.
• Service awards. Up to $2,500 each for the plaintiffs; the notice names 15, which would be up to $37,500.
• That leaves about $1.13 million before administration costs, which the notice does not quantify, and before the documented-loss claims.

Almost nobody files in breach settlements, and that is what sets the pro rata amount. If 5% of the 258,070 eligible people chose the pro rata option — about 12,900 claims — $1.13 million would come to roughly $88 each; at 10%, roughly $44; at 2%, roughly $219. Administration costs and every approved out-of-pocket claim would push those figures down. Treat them as the shape of the outcome, not a promise: the actual number will be known only after the claim deadline and final approval.

• October 13, 2026 — last day to opt out (a signed letter mailed to the Kroll P.O. box) or to object (postmarked by that day; it may also be filed with the court). Opting out is the only way to keep your own right to sue these defendants over the incident.
• November 12, 2026 — claim deadline, online at AmericanVisionSettlement.com or by mail postmarked that day.
• December 10, 2026, 10:00 a.m. MT — final fairness hearing before Judge Humetewa, Sandra Day O’Connor U.S. Courthouse, Courtroom 605, 401 W. Washington St., Phoenix. The court will also rule on fees and service awards. The notice warns the hearing can move without further notice.
• After that — “Damages Class Benefits will be distributed after the settlement has obtained Court approval and the time for all appeals has expired.” The notice gives no date.

The notice names the only authorized website as AmericanVisionSettlement.com and the phone line as (833) 630-5366. It asks class members not to contact the court or class counsel for information. Class counsel are Gary M. Klinger (Milberg PLLC), Raina C. Borrelli (Strauss Borrelli PLLC), Terence Coates (Markovits, Stock & DeMarco, LLC) and J. Austin Moore (Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP).

Do not confuse this case with the separate Total Vision data breach settlement, another eye-care network with its own $475,000 fund and an October 5, 2026 claim deadline. Kroll runs many settlements at once; its letters and envelopes are explained on our Kroll settlement administration page.