From Denver Post:
A Montbello mother says her 9-year-old son’s death from severe asthma could have been prevented had Denver Human Services resolved problems with his Medicaid pharmacy benefits.
Zuton Lucero said she called Human Services every three days for months last year when she was suddenly unable to get prescription drugs for her son, Zumante.
The boy’s health deteriorated without the medication, his doctor said, and he died at Children’s Hospital in July after losing consciousness at his house after an attack.
“I don’t want anyone else to be sitting where I’m sitting,” Lucero said.
Advocacy lawyers who met Wednesday with the Colorado Attorney General’s Office hold up Lucero’s story as an example of how serious the
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