Mount Sinai’s $220,000 Florida Settlement Won Final Approval on October 13 With Zero Objections — Payments Are Due Within 30 Days of the Effective Date or the End of Claim Review, Whichever Comes Later

The Florida Mount Sinai settlement cleared its last scheduled court step. Judge Jeffrey Levenson held the final approval hearing on October 13, 2026 and signed the Final Approval Order that afternoon; it was e-filed that evening. The order says “The terms of the Settlement are fair, adequate, and reasonable” and that the court “authorizes and directs implementation of all terms and provisions of the Settlement.” It also states that “there were no objections to the Settlement” and that 11 class members opted out. (Paragraph 12 of the same order separately refers to “no opt-outs”; the earlier recital names the 11.) The court entered judgment dismissing the case with prejudice and kept jurisdiction over “any distributions to the Settlement Class Members.”

What the order does not do is set a payment date. On the key question — the mount sinai payout date after settlement final approval — the answer comes from the settlement agreement’s timing rule, explained below. As of October 15, 2026, the settlement website’s documents page links the signed order, while its home page still carries the pre-approval text and no payment announcement. Our case page, Mount Sinai settlement payout date, tracks both Mount Sinai cases.

The class is everyone who accessed Mount Sinai Medical Center of Florida’s website or patient portal between June 10, 2021 and September 18, 2025. There are two benefits:

• Cash, only for people who filed a valid claim. The agreement sets a Total Cash Payment of $220,000 and a payment “in the estimated amount of $20.00,” raised or lowered pro rata on an equal-percentage basis. Any increase “shall not exceed a Cash Payment in the amount of $250.00.” Money left after that goes to a cy pres recipient — not back to the hospital — to be agreed by the parties and approved by the court.
• Medical data monitoring, for everyone in the class. One year of CyEx Medical Shield, with no claim needed. The activation code is on your settlement notice and, per the agreement, may be used “upon the Effective Date.”

How big the cash share ends up depends on the final count of valid claims, which has not been published. The last figure in the court file is from class counsel’s motion: “As of August 24, 2026, Atticus had received 4,311 Claim Form submissions” and had found 4,168 valid. Claims stayed open until September 28, so that is not the final number. For scale (our arithmetic, not a forecast): $220,000 covers 11,000 claims at $20; split among 4,168 claims it would be about $52.78 each. The class list held 325,108 names.

Fees do not come out of the $220,000. The court awarded class counsel $492,750.00 for fees and costs and $2,500.00 to each class representative, both “made by the Defendant.” The motion says administration costs, fees and service awards are paid separately, “none of which will reduce the value of the Settlement Class Members’ benefits.”

These are the dated steps in the settlement papers. We add no forecast of our own.

• Effective Date. The agreement defines it as “the day after the entry of the Final Approval Order, provided no objections are made to the Settlement.” The order says there were none, so by that definition the Effective Date follows the October 13 order — October 14, 2026. (The 30-day and appeal language in the definition applies only if there were objections.)
• Cash payments. Paragraph 84: “No later than 30 days after the Effective Date or completion of the Settlement Administrator’s validity review, whichever is later, the Settlement Administrator shall distribute the Settlement Class Member Benefits.” Thirty days after October 14 is November 13, 2026. That date is the deadline only if Atticus has finished reviewing claims by then; Atticus has not published when its review ends.
• Payment method. Electronic payment or paper check, whichever you chose on the claim form.
• Monitoring codes. Activatable from the Effective Date; the settlement FAQ says to visit the website or call 1-800-485-1017 for activation instructions after final approval.
• Fees. Paid directly by the hospital to class counsel no later than 30 days after the Effective Date.
• Website. Must stay online at least six months after final approval.
• Cy pres. Any leftover cash goes to a recipient the court still has to approve; no date is set.

If you filed a claim by the September 28, 2026 deadline, nothing — except answer any Notice of Deficiency from Atticus. The agreement warns that failing to respond “may result in a determination that the Claim is not a Valid Claim.” If you moved or changed your email, tell the administrator.

If you did not file, you get no cash. The claim deadline was September 28, 2026, and the order says people who did not submit a claim “shall still be bound” by the settlement. You still get the monitoring: look for the code on your email or postcard notice. Atticus emailed notice to 250,208 people and mailed postcards to 74,736.

Contact Atticus at 800-485-1017, mountsinaidatasettlement@atticusadmin.com, or Mt. Sinai Data Disclosure, c/o Atticus Administration, PO Box 64053, St. Paul, MN 55164.

The court-approved website is MountSinaiDataSettlement.com, and administrator email uses the atticusadmin.com domain. Since the hospital pays all costs and fees separately, a genuine payment never comes with a request for a processing fee. If something looks off, call the number on the official site rather than one in the message.

Don’t mix this case up with the other one. Many search results and social posts about a “Mount Sinai settlement” involve a separate New York MyChart case against Mount Sinai Health System, which has its own court, administrator and payment history. A claim in one case does not count in the other. Our Mount Sinai settlement payout date page separates the two.

For the Florida case: the plaintiffs alleged that Mount Sinai Medical Center of Florida — the largest private, independent, not-for-profit teaching hospital in the state, according to the agreement — “collected and disclosed Class Members’ sensitive personal health information and electronic communications to Google without prior notice and consent, through tracking mechanisms embedded in Defendant’s website and patient portal.” The claims were brought under the Florida Security of Communications Act and for invasion of privacy and unjust enrichment. This was not a hacking case. The hospital “denies any wrongdoing or liability,” and the settlement site notes that the court made no finding that any law was broken.

Approval came quickly. The judge granted preliminary approval on June 12, 2026, notice went out July 10, and the deadline for opt-outs and objections was September 14. According to the motion, the notice program reached about 98.31% of the class by direct notice. Final approval means the hospital is now obligated to pay. The money moves on the timetable above.