Five days after a pharmacy visit, Cole Schmidtknect had a severe asthma attack, stopped breathing and collapsed, his family ...

They add or subtract medications through a process that emphasizes profits for the pharmacy benefit manager by way of “rebates” from drug makers, said Gerard Anderson, a professor of health policy and ...

Five days before 22-year-old Cole Schmidtknecht suffered a fatal asthma attack, a pharmacist informed him that the price of ...

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Cole Schmidtknecht, 22, had insurance but couldn’t afford to refill his asthma inhaler after the cost jumped from $70 to more ...

Schmidtknecht chose not to buy the inhaler for his asthma at that cost and died from an asthma attack. “Predatory PBM practices, including failure to notify Cole of this price change ...

The parents of Cole Schmidtknecht, an Appleton man who died in January 2024 after suffering a severe asthma attack just days after his family says he stopped using his preventative inhaler due to ...

The lawsuit complaint, filed last month in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, seeks financial compensation for damages, including the suffering Cole Schmidtknecht ...

The lawsuit complaint, filed last month in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, seeks financial compensation for damages, including the suffering Cole Schmidtknecht, 22, ...

In January 2024, the cost of Cole Schmidtknecht’s maintenance asthma inhaler, which had previously been covered by insurance, was raised from $65 to more than $500, according to his parents.