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Mother Says Her Son Died After UnitedHealth Jacked the Price of His Inhaler From $66 to $539
Buy-n-Shoot NewsA young man with severe asthma used to be able to get his inhaler for cheap, but after UnitedHealthcare's drug arm jacked up the price, he had to go without — and it ultimately killed him. As Madison, Wisconsin's WMTV reports, the parents of the late Cole Schmidtknecht are suing Walgreens OptumRX, UnitedHealth's pharmacy benefit manager (PBM), after they upped the price of his steroid inhaler from $66 to $539. In their suit, Shanon and William "Bil" Schmidtknect allege that Optum operates as part of a prescription drug "oligopoly" that controls nearly 80 percent of all prescriptions in the United […]
