ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Sept. 10, 2025) – The National Community Pharmacists Association issued the following statement on behalf of CEO B. Douglas Hoey in response to Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson’s decision to hire Emma Mittelstaedt Burnham as associate director of health care in the agency’s Bureau of Competition:
“Fair competition is essential in the health care sector. Without it, powerful companies like PBMs and insurers manipulate the system in their own favor, and at the expense of consumers, patients, taxpayers, and small providers like independent pharmacies. Ms. Mittelstaedt Burnham has extensive experience investigating bad actors as an attorney with the DOJ, and we expect her to direct that focus to PBMs, where it is badly needed.”
NCPA has worked closely with the FTC on antitrust matters for years. It is also active in state and federal courts supporting litigation against pharmacy benefit managers for their anticompetitive practices.
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