Lawmakers urge FTC to release newest report on pharmacy benefit managers

A bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers is calling on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to vote in favor of releasing an interim staff report on pharmacy benefit managers (PBM).

Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), along with Reps. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) and Diana Harshbarger (R-Tenn.), wrote to the FTC in light of an upcoming Jan. 14 open commission meeting to consider issuing a second interim staff report on PBMs.

"PBMs were originally created...