1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Prescription Pricing for the People Act of 2019 . 2. Definitions In this Act: (1) Appropriate committees of congress The term appropriate committees of Congress means— (A) the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate; and (B) the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives. (2) Commission The term Commission means the Federal Trade Commission. 3. Study of pharmaceutical supply chain intermediaries and merger activity (a) Initial report Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Commission shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report that— (1) addresses at minimum— (A) whether pharmacy benefit managers— (i) charge payers a higher price than the reimbursement rate at which the pharmacy benefit managers reimburse competing pharmacies; (ii) steer patients for anticompetitive purposes to any pharmacies, including retail, mail-order, or any other type of pharmacy, in which the PBM has an ownership interest; (iii) audit or review proprietary data, including acquisition costs, patient information, or dispensing information, of competing pharmacies that can be used for anticompetitive purposes; or (iv) use formulary designs to increase the market share of higher cost prescription drugs and depress the market share of lower cost prescription drugs (each net of rebates and discounts); (B) whether there are any specific legal or regulatory obstacles the Commission currently faces in ensuring a competitive and transparent marketplace in the pharmaceutical supply chain, including the pharmacy benefit manager marketplace and pharmacy services administrative organizations; (C) how companies and payers assess the benefits, costs, and risks of contracting with intermediaries, including pharmacy services administrative organizations, and whether more information about the roles of intermediaries should be available to consumers and payers