{"id":24148,"date":"2025-03-20T12:14:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T16:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24148"},"modified":"2025-03-20T12:14:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T16:14:34","slug":"from-tv-to-cms-how-dr-oz-could-shape-medicare-and-medicaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24148","title":{"rendered":"From TV to CMS: How Dr. Oz could shape Medicare and Medicaid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Ryan Levi and Dan Gorenstein for NPR on March 20, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mehmet Oz \u2014 the surgeon-turned-TV-star better known as Dr. Oz \u2014 faced senators on Capitol Hill last week, asking them to confirm him as the new head of the federal Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2025\/03\/20\/nx-s1-5333850\/dr-oz-medicaid-medicare-cms\"> Read here..<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"75\" class=\"wp-image-10228\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CMS-logo-2-e1524659904197.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ryan Levi and Dan Gorenstein for NPR on March 20, 2025 Mehmet Oz \u2014 the surgeon-turned-TV-star better known as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,12,16,6,9],"tags":[80,67,61],"class_list":["post-24148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-general","category-medicaid","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","tag-cms","tag-medicaid","tag-medicare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24149,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24148\/revisions\/24149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}