Wellstar’s $4.25 Million MyChart Pixel Settlement Is $4.89 per Patient on Paper. About 870,000 People Are in the Class, Email Is the Primary Notice, and Only Those Who File Split What Is Left After the Lawyers’ Third. Claims Close November 10.

If an email or a letter about Doe v. Wellstar Health System, Inc. reached you, it concerns the Wellstar MyChart pixel settlement, a $4.25 million class action settlement in federal court in Atlanta. The court’s preliminary approval order was filed on July 28, 2026 (Document 56). The official website says notices went out “beginning on August 24, 2026.” The administrator is Epiq. The court-approved site is WellstarDataPrivacySettlement.com, the email address info@WellstarDataPrivacySettlement.com, the toll-free number 1-877-417-7863 (recorded information only), and the mailing address Wellstar Pixel Settlement, Settlement Administrator, P.O. Box 2197, Portland, OR 97208-2197. The safest route is to type the address yourself instead of clicking a link.

Why the notice came by email, not a letter. Under the settlement agreement, as summarized in the motion for preliminary approval, the primary notice goes “via electronic mail to the email address used by each Settlement Class Member on Defendant’s Web Properties.” Only people without an email address on file get notice by U.S. mail. So a message from the settlement in your inbox is the normal route, not a red flag by itself.

Filing online needs the Unique ID and PIN from your notice. The claim site asks for both on its login page and says: “If you did not receive a Notice or have lost yours, please contact the Settlement Administrator by emailing info@WellstarDataPrivacySettlement.com or writing to” the P.O. box. The printed claim form is another route: its field reads “Unique ID Number Provided on Mailed Notice (if known).” A missing notice therefore does not by itself stop a mailed claim. Whether any claim is valid is decided by the administrator.

Wellstar Health System is a hospital system in Georgia. The first complaint was filed on April 23, 2024 by a plaintiff using the name Jane Doe; four class representatives signed the settlement, all under Doe pseudonyms. The settlement website describes the claim this way: “Plaintiffs allege that Defendant disclosed Settlement Class Members’ personally identifiable information and protected health information to third parties including, but not limited to, Meta Platforms, Inc. d/b/a Meta and Google LLC via tracking pixels, cookies, and other tracking technologies installed on Defendant’s website and patient portal.”

The motion for preliminary approval names the two properties: the website at wellstar.org and “its ‘Wellstar MyChart’ patient portal (available at mychart.wellstar.org).” That is why the case turns up in searches for a Wellstar MyChart lawsuit. The defendant is Wellstar. Epic Systems, which makes the MyChart software, is not a party. Wellstar denies wrongdoing, and the court has not decided who is right.

Who is in the class. The definition reads: “a person residing in the United States whose information was disclosed to a third party between February 19, 2020, and July 22, 2026 through Tracking Technologies on Wellstar’s Web Properties.” The period ends on the day the settlement papers were filed. Judges and their staff, Wellstar’s officers and directors, and people who opt out are excluded. The motion estimates the class at approximately 870,000 individuals. If you are unsure whether you are in it, the administrator answers that question at the email address and phone number above.

Wellstar pays $4,250,000 into a settlement fund. The motion calls it “non-reversionary”, so none of it goes back to Wellstar. Out of that fund come the costs of notice and administration and whatever the court awards. Class counsel may ask for one third of the fund, which the settlement agreement puts at “approximately $1,416,666.67”, plus litigation costs. Each of the four class representatives may receive a $2,500 service award, $10,000 in total. The rest is paid as a “pro rata (a legal term meaning equal share) cash payment” to class members with valid claims. If money is left after the payments, it goes to Good Samaritan Health Center of Cobb, subject to court approval.

The plaintiffs’ own motion does the first division: the fund is “a value of approximately $4.89 per Class Member before administrative and other deductions, and materially more on a per-claimant basis.” Our arithmetic goes one step further. If the court grants the full fee request and the service awards, about $2.82 million remains before administration and litigation costs, which the documents do not quantify. Spread over all 870,000 class members that is about $3.25 each. Only people who file share it, though. If 1 in 10 class members filed, each share would be about $32. At 1 in 20 it would be about $65, and at 1 in 50 about $162 — each before administration and litigation costs. These are illustrations, not estimates. The settlement documents publish no claims rate and no per-person figure.

Two other hospital pixel settlements in our MyChart settlement tracker still accept claims, Bayhealth’s pixel case and Cone Health. Both have a claim deadline of October 5, 2026. Wellstar’s deadline of November 10 is the latest of the cases we track, so from October 6 it will be the only one of them still open.

Every hospital case is separate. A claim in the Wellstar settlement covers only your use of Wellstar’s website and MyChart portal. Patients of other systems need that system’s own settlement, if there is one.

October 26, 2026 is the deadline to opt out or object. An opt-out must be mailed and postmarked by that date; the site says “You cannot opt out of the Settlement Class by telephone or by email,” and opt-outs filed by a third party for many people at once are not allowed. Objections are filed in writing with the court. Class counsel must file the fee and service-award request at least 14 days before the objection deadline, which means by October 12 (our arithmetic from section 11.3 of the agreement).

November 10, 2026 is the claim deadline, online or postmarked. The final approval hearing is on December 1, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. ET in the Richard B. Russell Federal Building, 75 Ted Turner Dr. SW, Atlanta. The site notes the date may change and the hearing may be held by video or phone. Claims therefore close three weeks before the judge decides whether to approve the deal.

No money moves before approval. The FAQ says payments “will be provided after the Settlement is approved by the Court. This may take time.” Class counsel are David Almeida and Britany Wessan of Almeida Law Group LLC, Brandon Wise and Andrew Tate of Peiffer Wolf Carr Kane Conway & Wise, LLP, and C.J. Cuneo of Milberg LLC.