Cole Schmidtknecht's Asthma Death
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Parents sue over son's asthma death days after inhaler price soared without warning

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Cole Schmidtknecht 's asthma inhaler cost him less than $70 at his Appleton , Wisconsin , pharmacy.
His parents are suing pharmacy benefit managers who changed his insurance formulary.
Pharmacy benefit managers control behind the scenes which drugs will be on an insurance company’s list of covered medications.
The deals are “a negotiation between the drug companies and the PBM ,” Anderson said.
The rewards for the PBMs can be huge.
A Federal Trade Commission report found that, over the past few years , the three biggest PBMs inflated the costs of numerous life-saving medications.
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