The Federal Trade Commission testified before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation today to highlight the agency’s accomplishments in the last year and a half and its ongoing work to protect consumers and promote competition on behalf of the American people. These accomplishments reflect the agency’s continued work in support of the Trump-Vance administration’s pro‑consumer, pro‑competition agenda, which prioritizes lower costs, fair markets and accountability across the economy. FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson testified at the hearing along with Commissioner Mark R. Meador and outlined the Commission’s priorities and recent achievements on behalf of consumers, workers and honest businesses. This includes staff preparations for the enforcement of the TAKE IT DOWN Act, which is set to go into effect on May 19. The act, which was signed into law last year by President Trump, protects the victims of online abuse and exploitation by requiring, among other things, online platforms to take down nonconsensual intimate images. As part of the agency’s broad mandate to protect consumers, the FTC has worked to combat deceptive fees that drive up costs in areas ranging from automobiles, online food delivery, concert tickets and online subscriptions. The Commission is fighting for consumer privacy rights and working to stop illegal robocalls and telemarketing scams. The testimony also showcased the Commission’s ongoing fight against anticompetitive practices in the marketplace. This included a renewed focus on preserving competition in the healthcare market through the creation of a Healthcare Task Force to ensure healthcare is available, affordable and effective for the American people. The Commission has also taken action to protect workers from anticompetitive labor practices such as unreasonable noncompete agreements, no-hire provisions and DEI collusion. The Commission vote to approve the testimony was 2-0.
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A list of the state averages for the HCAHPS survey responses. HCAHPS is a national, standardized survey of hospital patients about their experiences during a recent inpatient hospital stay.
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The Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) measures - national data. These measures are developed by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and collected through the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN). They provide information on infections that occur while the patient is in the hospital. These infections can be related to devices, such as central lines and urinary catheters, or spread from patient to patient after contact with an infected person or surface. Many healthcare associated infections can be prevented when the hospitals use CDC-recommended infection control steps.
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Value-Based Incentive Payment Amount displays the number of hospitals that received value-based incentive payment amounts in ranges of $50,000.
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Unplanned Hospital Visits: state data. This data set includes state-level data for the hospital return days (or excess days in acute care [EDAC]) measures, the unplanned readmissions measures, and measures of unplanned hospital visits after outpatient procedures.
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