On March 14, Mehmet Oz, MD, had its confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee to become the new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator (CMS). In an hour and a half sessionDr. Oz mostly diverted the concerns of both sides of the hall.
In his opening comments, Oz expressed his intention to support Trump’s plan to make Americans feel healthy again. He said that President Trump’s executive order on transparency changes power to the US people. «We should encourage doctors and our medical care providers to optimize care.» Oz said artificial intelligence (AI) can help with their workflow.
«Let’s be aggressive in the modernization of our tools to reduce fraud, waste and abuse,» Oz said as a focus. «This will prevent unscrupulous people from stealing vulnerable Americans.»
Before your audience, The United States Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren requested that the nominee disintegrate financial ties with medical and pharmaceutical care companies that could benefit from their policy decisions. During the audience, however, She focused on her views on whether Medicare’s private plans are overloading the government, reporters Cane Abelson and Susanne Craig de The New York Times wrote. «SHe and Dr. Oz seemed to agree on the need to address fraud and potential waste.«
As Abelson and Craig wrote, «Democrats seemed more frustrated by Dr. Oz’s position towards Medicaid, the state-federal program that covers 72 million low-income Americans.» All my colleagues want to know, are you going to cut Medicaid? «Asked Maria Cantwell, Washington’s Democrat.
Meanwhile, regarding the problems related to the Medicare Advantage program, Medical Care DivingEmily Olsen wrote on March 17 That «Dr. Mehmet Oz, the election of President Donald Trump to lead the CMS, promised to analyze Medicare Advantage insurers in an effort to control costs during a confirmation audience last week.» Actually, we are actually paying more on Medicare Advantage than paying on a regular Medicare. Therefore, he is up, «he said in front of the Senadas Finance Committee on Friday.» As Olsen pointed out, «Oz has previously advocated to expand the MA program and worked as a runner of the plans, according to the New York Times. In addition, she has actions in Unitedhealth Group, the largest insurer of the nation of the nation, although she has said that she would disable her participation in some health and pharmaceutical companies if she confirmed as a CMS administrator.»
In addition, Olsen wrote: «The nominee also argued that the CMS could reduce the amount of previous authorization requests, where suppliers should receive the approval of the patient insurers before performing a service. The denial of claims for MA plans, even through the use of artificial intelligence tools. Today.»
The committee led by the Republican party will schedule a vote on whether to send the OZ nomination to the complete Senate.
