Medicare
Anonymous sources said the probe is focused on the company’s Medicare billing practices.
In an attempt to wring out more savings, Republicans are considering the forbidden fruit of budget cuts: health care for seniors.
Former heart surgeon and TV pitchman Dr. Mehmet Oz was confirmed Thursday to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Sen. Bill Cassidy wondered on CNBC Tuesday if there was "some way that we can cut Medicare," before correcting himself with the word "reform."
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Dr. Mehmet Oz is promising to fight health care fraud and push to make Americans healthier if he becomes the next leader of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
For all their vows to cut "waste and abuse" in entitlements, they seem oddly reluctant to go after an obvious target.
The math doesn't add up for Trump and the Republicans unless they take hundreds of billions of dollars out of Medicare or Medicaid.
The effects of DOGE and potential cuts to Medicaid are likely to hit communities where Donald Trump is popular.
Reforms of prescription drug pricing are finally taking full effect, just in time for Donald Trump and the Republicans to wreck them.
The Federal Trade Commission requires influencers to disclose when a post is a paid advertisement — and a public interest group said Oz may have violated that rule.