Welcome to the Class Action Settlements Website for Acute Care Hospital Claims

If you are an Acute Care Hospital that treated patients diagnosed with opioid use disorder and/or other opioid-related conditions, you may qualify for payment from class action settlements totaling $651 million. If you are included, your legal rights will be affected whether you act or don’t act.
Please read this carefully.

What is the Settlement about?

Four proposed settlements (“Settlements”)¹, totaling $651 million with four Defendant groups have been reached in a class action lawsuit. The lawsuit alleges that to sell as many prescription opioids as possible, manufacturers misrepresented the risks and safety of prescription opioid use, distributors did not properly monitor, stop, or report suspicious orders, and pharmacies filled opioid prescriptions that were not written for legitimate medical purposes. It further alleges that as a result, acute care hospitals must now spend additional money and resources to treat opioid-dependent patients and patients with opioid-related conditions that they would not have had to treat otherwise. Defendants deny that they did anything wrong. The Court has not decided who is right. Under the Settlements, the Settling Defendants agreed to pay money to resolve the claims against them. The Settlements do not resolve claims against Defendants who did not agree to settle, and the lawsuit against these non-settling defendants will continue.

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¹ Terms used but not defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Settlements or in the Plan of Allocation, as applicable.

Who is included in the Class?

All entities that fall within one or more of the following categories:
All Acute Care Hospitals in the United States that (i) are not owned or operated by a federal, state, county, parish, city, or other municipal government; and (ii) treated patients diagnosed with opioid use disorder and/or other opioid-related conditions at any time from January 1, 2009, through the date of entry of the Preliminary Approval Order; all entities listed on Exhibit A of the Settlement Agreements; and all Plaintiffs in the Other Actions listed on Exhibit B of the Settlement Agreements. Click here for access to the Settlement Agreements.

How do I participate in the Class Action Settlements?

A Class Member must do each of the following, according to the guidelines set forth below:

Step 1:
Complete the Registration Form electronically, which is a fillable PDF that can be downloaded by clicking here and must be emailed to info@acutecarehospitalsettlement.com;

If the “Quick Pay” option is selected on the Registration Form in Section E, there is no further action needed unless directed by the Notice and Claims Administrators. If the “Quick Pay” option is NOT selected, a Class Member must complete the steps outlined in Items 3-6 below;

Step 2:
Once the Registration Form is received, the Notice and Claims Administrators will communicate instructions to you for accessing a secure file transfer protocol (“SFTP”);

Step 3:
Complete the Business Associate and Confidentiality Agreement (the “BAA”) electronically, which is a fillable PDF that can be downloaded clicking here, and submit it via SFTP;

Step 4:
The Notice and Claims Administrators will provide you with an executed BAA via the SFTP to download for your records;

Step 5:
Complete the Claim Form, as applicable, electronically, which is a fillable PDF that can be downloaded clicking here; and

Step 6:
Submit the completed Claim Form with all supporting documents and information requested therein, along with the requisite claims data as described in Section F.8 of the Claim Form, via SFTP.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE BAA, CLAIM FORM, AND ACCOMPANYING CLAIMS DATA ABOVE SHALL NOT BE SUBMITTED VIA EMAIL. Instead, by submitting the Registration Form described in Item 1 above, you will receive instructions for accessing an SFTP to which the BAA, the Claim Form, and accompanying requisite claims data must be submitted.

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