Sharp HealthCare Lawsuit: The Meta Pixel Case, the AI Recording Suit and the Breaches
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Most people searching “Sharp HealthCare lawsuit” want to know one thing: is there money to claim? As of October 8, 2026, we found no Sharp HealthCare settlement, no fund, no claim form and no deadline. The Meta Pixel class action over sharp.com spent over a year in federal court in San Diego. In March 2024 a federal judge sent it back to state court, and we could not find a public record of what happened there. A separate class action filed in November 2025 claims Sharp recorded exam-room visits with an AI tool without proper consent.
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What the Sharp HealthCare Class Action Lawsuits Say
The tracking case. The plaintiffs claim Sharp put Meta Pixel code on sharp.com and its subpages. They say it captured what patients did there, such as searching for doctors and booking appointments, and sent it to Meta in “data packets” carrying identifiers such as the visitor's IP address, for ad targeting. They sued for intrusion upon seclusion, invasion of privacy under the California Constitution, and violations of California's Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) and Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA). One complaint cites a June 2022 report by The Markup. That report listed Sharp among 33 top hospitals using a tracking code on their websites.
Important for the “MyChart” question: the court described the pages in this case as “unauthenticated”. That means public pages that do not require a login. The case was about the public website, not the logged-in patient portal.
The AI recording case. A Sharp patient filed a proposed class action in San Diego in November 2025. It claims Sharp began using an AI “ambient” documentation tool from Abridge in April 2025. The complaint says the tool recorded doctor-patient conversations without all-party consent, as CIPA requires. It also says the tool sent medical information to the vendor's cloud and put false “patient consented” notes in charts. These are allegations. Sharp has not been found liable in either case.
Case Details
The tracking case began as Cousin v. Sharp Healthcare, San Diego Superior Court No. 37-2022-00047290-CU-MC-CTL, and Camus v. Sharp Healthcare, No. 37-2022-00048546-CU-NP-CTL. Sharp moved both to federal court under the federal officer removal statute. A third suit, Barbat v. Sharp Healthcare, was filed directly in federal court on February 17, 2023. The three were combined as No. 3:22-cv-02040-MMA-DDL in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, before Judge Michael M. Anello.
On November 17, 2023 Judge Anello allowed most claims to go forward. Then, in an order dated March 18, 2024, he found that Sharp had improperly removed the cases and that the court had to decline jurisdiction under the Class Action Fairness Act. He split the cases apart and vacated his earlier rulings as void. He sent Cousin and Camus back to the Superior Court of California, County of San Diego. He dismissed Barbat without prejudice, so it could be refiled in state court. Full text: GovInfo, Cousin et al v. Sharp Healthcare.
The AI recording case was filed in San Diego in November 2025. We could not confirm its case number.
Status: No Sharp HealthCare Settlement, No Claim Form
Meta Pixel case: no longer in federal court since March 2024. We could not find a public record of what happened after it returned to San Diego Superior Court. That includes any settlement, dismissal or class certification, so we do not claim any of them.
AI recording case: we found coverage only from its filing period, through January 2026, and no later ruling.
Breaches: we found no Sharp HealthCare data breach settlement for the 2023 bill-payment incident or the 2025 Episource vendor breach. If a court approves a settlement, a court-appointed administrator will notify class members directly.
Are You Affected?
Tracking claims: the proposed classes covered California residents who used sharp.com, for example to search for a doctor or book an appointment. No class has been certified that we could find, and there is nothing to sign up for.
Bill-payment breach: this covered patients who paid a bill online between August 12, 2021 and January 12, 2023. Sharp mailed notices to them.
Episource breach: Sharp patients whose records sat with the vendor Episource were notified separately.
Our form on this page asks whether you used the Sharp website or the MyChart portal, what you did there, and when you last used it. Your answers help match you to a case if one opens. Meanwhile, keep any letter Sharp sent you. You can also check our MyChart class action claim form guide for hospital tracking settlements that are open now.
What a Sharp HealthCare Settlement Could Pay
For context, not as a prediction: hospital pixel settlements elsewhere have usually paid a small flat amount per claimant, with the amount depending on how many people file. CIPA allows statutory damages of up to $5,000 per violation, which is why the AI recording complaint is framed around it. Settlements rarely pay the statutory maximum per person.
To compare, see the MyChart settlement calculator and the data breach settlement calculator.
How cases like this one end
Our copy of the federal courts’ own case database covers 111,990 other personal injury casesclosed in U.S. federal district courts between 2015 and 2025, 3.6% of them filed as class actions:
- 39.9% ended in a settlement recorded by the court. Another 13.8% were dismissed voluntarily, which often follows a private settlement — so the real settlement share sits between 39.9% and 53.7%.
- 5.7% were decided on a motion before any trial.
- 1 in 106 reached a trial (0.9%), after a median of 23.9 months.
- Median time from filing to the end of the case: 9 months.
- Only 771 of them (0.7%) record a money award at all; the median of those is $500,000.
These are base rates for this type of case (federal other personal injury cases) — not a prediction about this lawsuit, and not legal advice. Source: Federal Judicial Center, Integrated Database (civil), analysed by Settlement Insight. Cases heard in state courts are not included.
Sharp HealthCare Lawsuit Timeline
- 1
June 2022 — Tracking Code Reported
The Markup names Sharp among 33 top hospitals using a tracking code on their websites, per a later complaint.
- 2
January 12, 2023 — Payment Server Accessed
An unauthorized person reaches a sharp.com payment server for several hours. Sharp later reports 62,777 patients affected. Medical records and the patient portal were not involved, according to Sharp.
- 3
February 17, 2023 — Barbat Suit Filed
A third Meta Pixel suit is filed in federal court. It joins Cousin and Camus as one consolidated case before Judge Anello.
- 4
November 17, 2023 — Most Claims Survive
Judge Anello denies most of Sharp's motion to dismiss. He removes only money damages under the California Constitution claim.
- 5
March 18, 2024 — Sent Back to State Court
The judge finds the federal court lacks jurisdiction. He vacates his earlier rulings and returns Cousin and Camus to San Diego Superior Court.
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November 2025 — AI Recording Suit Filed
A Sharp patient files a proposed class action over Abridge AI recordings in exam rooms. As of October 2026 we found no settlement in any Sharp case.
Three Things to Watch For
Sharp patients have received breach letters more than once, and fake “settlement” messages use that:
“Claim your Sharp pixel settlement”
We found no Sharp HealthCare settlement, so no real claim site exists. A page asking for your date of birth or Social Security number to “reserve your payment” is collecting data.
Callers who quote your invoice number
The 2023 breach exposed internal Sharp ID numbers, invoice numbers and payment amounts. A caller who reads those back to you is not proving anything. Hang up and call the number on your Sharp bill.
“Verify your MyChart” texts
Lawsuit news is easy bait for portal-login phishing. Do not log in from a link in a text or email. Type sharp.com yourself and sign in from there.
Sharp HealthCare Lawsuit — Questions People Actually Ask
Is there a Sharp HealthCare MyChart lawsuit?
Not about the portal itself, as far as we found. The Sharp HealthCare MyChart lawsuit people search for is the Meta Pixel case, and it concerned public sharp.com pages that need no login. Sharp's website points its MyChart login to app.sharp.com. We found no case that claims tracking inside the logged-in portal.
Is there a Sharp HealthCare settlement I can claim?
No. As of October 8, 2026 we found no settlement, no fund, no administrator, no claim form and no deadline in any Sharp case.
What happened to the Sharp HealthCare class action lawsuit over Meta Pixel?
It was combined in federal court as No. 3:22-cv-02040. On March 18, 2024 Judge Anello sent the Cousin and Camus cases back to San Diego Superior Court and dismissed Barbat without prejudice. We could not find a public record of what happened next.
Did the judge rule that Sharp shared health information with Meta?
No. In November 2023 the judge found the claims plausible enough to continue, which is not a finding of fact. Later, he vacated that ruling because the federal court lacked jurisdiction. Nothing has been proven.
Was there a Sharp HealthCare data breach?
Yes, two that we found. In January 2023 a sharp.com payment server was accessed. Sharp reported 62,777 affected patients and said Social Security numbers, card data and clinical information were not included. In 2025 the billing vendor Episource was breached between January 27 and February 6, 2025, which affected Sharp patient records. The federal Episource case, which covers more than 5.4 million people, was sharply narrowed in January 2026.
What is the Sharp AI recording lawsuit?
A proposed class action filed in San Diego in November 2025. It claims Sharp recorded visits with the Abridge AI tool without all-party consent, in a class that may exceed 100,000 patients. It is not a settlement.
Do I need to sign up to be included?
No. If a class is certified or a settlement is approved, a court-appointed administrator contacts class members. You do not have to hire a lawyer to be part of a class.
What can I do right now?
Keep any Sharp breach letter. Check your insurer's explanation-of-benefits statements for care you never received. If you want to block ad tracking, review your Facebook off-platform activity settings.
Separate from this case: were you injured in the last 2 years?
Class-action payouts are fixed amounts through an administrator. A personal injury claim is a different case — and often worth far more. Free estimate, no obligation.
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