Senate Panel Advances Nomination of Dr. Oz to Head Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Dr. Mehmet Oz moved a step closer to becoming administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as the Senate Committee on Finance recommended his confirmation on March 25. President Donald Trump nominated Oz to lead the agency that administers health coverage payments for more than 160 million people and spends one in five taxpayer dollars through Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Health Insurance Marketplace. Oz, formerly an attending physician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and professor of surgery at Columbia University, is best known as the celebrity host of a long-running syndicated television program featuring health-related topics....