Man Died After Inhaler Price Rose to $539, Lawsuit Alleges
Cole Schmidtknecht had chronic asthma since he was a child, and had used a steroid inhaler to control his symptoms for more ...
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Mother Says Her Son Died After UnitedHealth Jacked the Price of His Inhaler From $66 to $539
After UnitedHealthcare's drug arm jacked up the price of inhalers, a young man with severe asthma had to go without — and ...
22-Year-Old With Chronic Asthma Died After Inhaler Price Went From $66 to $539: Lawsuit
The parents of a 22-year-old Wisconsin man who died after an asthma attack have filed a lawsuit against Walgreens and ...
'Chose rent over his medicine': Parents of 22-year-old who died from asthma attack sue pharmacy over inhaler price jump
The parents of a young Wisconsin man have sued Walgreens and pharmacy benefit manager OptumRx over their son’s death from an ...
Man’s asthma inhaler cost went from $66 to $539, then he died, Wisconsin lawsuit says
The family of a Wisconsin man is suing after they say he died from an asthma attack when his medication price rose from $66 ...
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Generic prescription drug prices marked up as high as 5,000%, investigation finds
A new FTC report found that pharmacy benefit managers have inflated the price of life-saving generic prescription drugs, finding the companies sometimes increased prices of these drugs by 1,000 ...
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Big 3 PBMs reaped $7.3B from generic specialty drug markups: FTC
Pharmacy benefit managers CVS Caremark, OptumRx and Express Scripts inflated costs for specialty generic drugs to treat diseases such as cancer and HIV to the tune of $7.3 billion over six years ...
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Wisconsin family files federal lawsuit against pharmacy chain and PBM over son’s death
Trunk, a partner at Kline & Specter, alleged OptumRx and Cole’s pharmacy, Walgreens, are at fault in Cole’s death. “Our hope is that this lawsuit and Cole’s death will lead them to kind of ...
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UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged some cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
FTC Chair Lina Khan has the big three pharmacy benefit managers in sight—UnitedHealth's OptumRx, Cigna's Express Scripts and CVS Caremark Rx.
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Man’s asthma inhaler cost went from $66 to $539, then he died, Wisconsin lawsuit says
His medication was covered by his employer-provided health insurance United Health-OptumRx Plan. Under the healthcare plan, the Advair Diskus cost no more than $66.86, and at times as low as $35 ...