The couple is also suing Walgreens.

This undated photo provided by Shanon Schmidtknecht shows Cole Schmidtknecht of Appleton, Wis., who died of an asthma attack on Jan. 21, 2024. (Shanon Schmidtknecht via AP) ...

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Optum Services is letting go of 71 workers in New Jersey, the company announced in a WARN filing at the end of January. The layoffs will take effect April 23. There will be 14 clinical review ...

Pharmacy benefits managers act as intermediaries between health insurance companies, prescription drug companies and pharmacies. Optum Rx services prescription claims for more than 66 million people ...

Cole Schmidtknecht, 22, couldn't pay for his daily inhaler due to the “prohibitively expensive” price increase, but then he died of an asthma attack, per a lawsuit filed by his parents ...

Google Maps Cole was allegedly not given a 30-day notice by Optum Rx that his medication — nor its generic forms — would no longer be covered, the suit alleges. Lawyers for the plaintiff said ...

Optum Rx services prescription claims for more than 66 million people across the United States, according to the lawsuit. The lawsuit alleges that the Walgreens pharmacy staffers failed to offer ...

Martin Levine, family medicine physician with Optum Care Washington. “That’s a normal phenomenon. But for some people, a percentage of the population, as the seasons change in the fall ...