President-elect Donald Trump also selected Dr. Mehmet Oz, a former television talk show host and heart surgeon, to head the agency that oversees Medicaid, Medicare and the Affordable Care Act, and named Wall Street executive Howard Lutnick to lead the Commerce Department.

Oz has made his preference known for privatized Medicare, which could substantially disrupt the current system.

If approved, Mehmet Oz will helm an agency that provides health coverage to more than 160 million people. One expert calls Trump's selection of the doctor and TV star "madness."

WASHINGTON (AP) President-elect Donald Trump says he is nominating Dr. Mehmet Oz, who hosted a long-running...

President-elect Trump continues to pick his new administration. He will nominated Dr. Mehmet Oz known for The Dr. Oz Show on daytime TV to head the agency that oversees Medicare and Medicaid.

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday tapped Dr. Mehmet Oz, a former television talk show host and heart surgeon, to head the agency that oversees health insurance programs for millions.

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Trump taps Dr. Oz to run Medicare, Medicaid agency The television personality and doctor would lead a powerful agency that oversees health coverage for more than 150 million people. AP Trump announced Tuesday that Oz, a heart surgeon...

"There may be no physician more qualified and capable than Dr. Oz to Make America Healthy Again, Trump said

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) opened the door on Tuesday to supporting ex-rival Mehmet Oz as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator. If Dr. Oz is about protecting and preserving Medicare and Medicaid, Im voting for the dude, Fetterman said in a post on the social platform X. President-elect Trump on Tuesday announced...

WASHINGTON President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday tapped Dr. Mehmet Oz, a former television talk show host and heart surgeon, to head the agency that oversees health insurance programs for millions of older, poor and disabled Americans and selected Wall Street executive Howard Lutnick to lead the Commerce Department. “Dr. Oz will be a leader […]

As administrator of the CMS, Oz will lead the federal health programs that provide services to about half of all Americans.

TV personality and former Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz would lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as the new administrator if approved.

Oz has been an outspoken supporter of Trump and in recent days expressed support for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination for the nation's top health agency

Mehmet Oz, a celebrity heart surgeon turned talk show host and lifestyle guru, is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the massive federal health care bureaucracy that covers more than a third of Americans.Here’s a look at a television doctor who became a politician and is...

President-elect Donald Trump announced that he had selected Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator.The post Trump Selects Dr. Oz to Lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ...