The answer to the question about whether it’s appropriate to call one of President-elect Trump’s latest cabinet nominees by his made-for-TV handle “Dr. Oz” is all too obvious: Yes.

If confirmed to run the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, television personality Dr. Mehmet Oz, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee, would oversee two large federal health insurance programs that cover about 2 in 5 Americans and greatly influence the nation's health care system.

The celebrity physician would run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a powerful agency in charge of programs that cover more than 150 million Americans.

In November 2024, president-elect Trump selected TV personality Dr. Mehmet Oz, who has an estimated net worth of $200 million, to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Servic

Trump said Tuesday he would nominate Oz as administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The agency’s scope is huge: CMS oversees coverage for more than 160 million Americans, nearly half the population.