He ruled the operating room and then daytime TV. Now, Dr. Oz is set to take over a $1.5 trillion health agency Tara Bannow By Tara Bannow Feb. 4, 2025

https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/04/dr-oz-trump-nominee-journey-from-medicine-to-daytime-tv-to-cms-administrator/?utm_campaign=morning_rounds&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8JCmFeUzsUMQQeeNQJaa6jAvmt5I-WbUTLeK_sn0OTC-tT0VDFMHKjQB9fn2MgKCy1AFIMe-AsBAdxCwcPLtkIshhj0g&_hsmi=345537901&utm_content=345537901&utm_source=hs_email For over a dozen years, Mehmet Oz hosted his popular — perhaps now infamous — talk show, promoting wellness products, ticking off countless doctors and scientists, triggering lawsuits and government warnings, and turning vaccine skeptics like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. into a household name. It was 2016 when he first publicly aligned himself with then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. Nine years later, Oz is poised to become administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. But does his background as a successful surgeon and even more successful television host give him the needed expertise to manage a large, complicated bureaucracy with thousands of employees? When STAT’s Tara Bannow spoke to former colleagues — both doctors and TV producers — they were unanimously supportive of the appointment. But some experts have concerns about his financial conflicts in particular.