News Briefs: Firing of FTC Commissioners May Impact PBM Case
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Mar 27, 2025
President Donald Trump on March 18 fired two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), bringing into question how the agency’s administrative case against major PBMs will proceed. Trump dismissed Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter just six months after the FTC filed its administrative complaint against CVS Health Corp.’s Caremark, The Cigna Group’s Express Scripts and UnitedHealth Group’s Optum Rx, accusing them of inflating the cost of insulin treatments. The agency also named Zinc Health Services, Ascent Health Services and Emisar Pharma Services, the PBMs’ affiliated group purchasing organizations, in the complaint. Bedoya, Slaughter and fellow Democrat Lina Khan, then-FTC chair, voted in favor of the complaint, while the two Republican commissioners — Andrew Ferguson and Melissa Holyoak — were recused because they were previously state attorneys general investigating the PBMs. Khan left the FTC in January and was replaced by Ferguson. A hearing in the PBM case is set for Aug. 27.
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