22-Year-Old With Chronic Asthma Died After Inhaler Price Went From $66 to $539: Lawsuit
The Schmidtknechts’ lawsuit alleged their son was not notified by his insurance or Walgreens ahead of time that his inhaler ...
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When the Cost of His Asthma Inhaler Went Up $500, His Parents Claim He Couldn't Pay. Two Weeks Later He Was Dead at 22
GSK, the manufacturer of Advair, is not named in the lawsuit ... history and can confirm that he did fill a generic Albuterol prescription, an inhaler used to stop asthma attacks, on January ...
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Short-Term Safety and Tolerability of Double-Dose Salmeterol/Fluticasone Propionate in Adult Asthmatic Patients
Introduction: The incidence of asthma exacerbations in patients receiving salmeterol/fluticasone propionate (Seretide™ or Advair ®) is ... daily from a Diskus™ inhaler for a 4-week run ...
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OptumRX responds to Wisconsin family’s lawsuit for asthma death
The family learned he had to forgo his inhaler because of the price ... OptumRx failed to give 30 days' notice that Advair Diskus or its generic equivalents would be covered by insurance in ...
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Wisconsin man, 22, dead from asthma attack after price on inhaler skyrockets from $66 to over $500, parents claim in explosive lawsuit
His plan through OptumRx, a subsidiary of United Health Group, covered the corticosteroid inhaler Advair Diskus ... 79 percent of the fulfillment of drug prescriptions. The Schmidtknechts accuse ...
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Wisconsin man dies after inhaler cost jumps $500, according to family's lawsuit
Unable to afford the inhaler, the lawsuit alleges he left the store ... "Defendant Optum Rx had a duty to not artificially inflate prescription drug prices for medications such as Advair Diskus for ...