Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson has directed agency staff to create a Healthcare Task Force aimed at coordinating enforcement and advocacy work across the healthcare sector, according to a statement. The new group is intended to strengthen the FTC’s response to issues affecting patients, healthcare workers and taxpayers by bringing together multiple parts of the agency under a more unified strategy, per a statement. Ferguson outlined the move in a memorandum ordering the FTC’s Bureaus of Competition, Consumer Protection and Economics, along with the Office of Policy Planning and the Office of Technology, to establish the task force.
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