Wisconsin Couple Consumes Walgreens and Optum RX, saying that the son died of 500 USD price growth for asthma

La Crosse, Wis. (AP) – The Wisconsin pair suits Walgreens and a company management company, claiming that their son died because he could not afford a sudden jump worth $ 500 in asthma drugs.

Shanon and William Schmidtknecht of Poynette filed a lawsuit at the Federal Court in Milwaukee on January 21, a year to the day on which their son Cole died at the age of 22.

According to Cole Schmidtknecht, he suffered from asthma all his life. He succeeded with daily doses of Diskus Diskus and his general counterparts, which he swallowed through the inhaler.

He stopped at the Walgreens pharmacy at Appleton on January 10, 2024 to supplement the prescription and it was said that the cost increased from 66 to 539 USD out of its own pocket. You can’t afford a new cost, he left the pharmacy without medicine. According to the trial, he tried to cope with his condition with a rescue inhaler, but suffered a deadly attack of asthma.

Schmidtknechts argue that the company dealing with the management of benefits about Optumrx pharmacies has violated Wisconsin’s law, raising the cost of the drug without a valid medical justification and does not provide a 30 -day overstate of the increase in drug prices.

Pharmacy managers act as intermediaries between insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies and prescription pharmacies. According to the claim, Optum RX Services claims over 66 million people in the United States.

The lawsuit claims that Walgreens employees did not offer Cole to get around Cole to get ordinary medicines. They told him that there were no cheaper alternatives or general medicines available, they did not contact Optumrx to ask for an exception on behalf of Cole, and did not ask Cole’s doctor to ask for an exception, his parents say.

The lawsuit strives for indefinite damage.

“The behavior of both Optumrx and Walgreens were regrettable,” said one of the family lawyers, Michael Trunk in a statement. “Evidence in this matter will show that both Optumrx and Walgreens put profits in the first place and are directly responsible for Cole’s death.”

Optumrx spokesman did not immediately answer Wednesday’s news in search of a comment. In the statement in April last year, expanding his compassion for the family, the company said that the review of Cole’s claims showed that on the day he visited the pharmacy, he bought other asthma drugs, Generic Albuterol, for co -author 5 USD in January. 10 – a medicine that, he says, also obtained in October 2023. His case was served “in line with the industry practice and the patient’s insurance plan,” said the company.

Trunk, however, said on Wednesday that the general prescription recipe in the amount of $ 5 was for his rescue inhaler, not the Diskus inhaler, which he received every day. He said Cole was not able to fill his prescription on Disko Advair because he suddenly became too expensive.

Officials Walgreens did not answer immediately to Wednesday’s e -mail with applying for a comment to the lawsuit.