22-Year-Old With Chronic Asthma Died After Inhaler Price Went From $66 to $539: Lawsuit

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22-Year-Old With Chronic Asthma Died After Inhaler Price Went From $66 to $539: Lawsuit
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The parents of a 22-year-old Wisconsin man who died after an asthma attack have filed a lawsuit against Walgreens and UnitedHealth Group’s pharmacy benefit manager after they said the price for his medication suddenly rose from $66 to $539.

Schmidtknecht remained on a ventilator in the intensive care unit for six days until his parents ended life support. He was pronounced dead on Jan. 21, 2024.covered Advair Diskus’s generic equivalents, and instead only covered two newer brand-name drugs whose manufacturer had paid OptumRx a substantial rebate for

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