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From Fox Business: Trump-appointed Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz is spearheading a surprising shift in how Medicare and Medicaid are managed – one that he says could save the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars.
Appearing on “Mornings with Maria,” the former television host and heart surgeon described what he called a “generational opportunity” to reform Medicaid.
“I believe we’re going to increase expenditures on Medicaid,” Dr. Oz said Tuesday at the 2025 Milken Institute Global Conference. “It may not increase as much as it would have normally increased, but I think we have a unique opportunity… because what the president wants to do is get everyone aligned.”
Dr. Oz emphasized that the system is currently misallocating funds. He argued that Medicare and Medicaid are paying out the “wrong people” with the wrong amounts of money.
“In Medicaid, we’ve got a problem. We’re not funding the program as it was originally envisioned, because we’re shifting so much of it to able-bodied individuals.”
“There’s about a billion dollars, at least, that we believe – potentially even up to $10 billion, if we get it right, of people who are on Medicaid in more than one state,” Dr. Oz revealed.
“We’re here in California now. If you’re a Medicaid patient in California and you move to Nevada, who does the federal government compensate? It turns out… Both. Why? Because it’s incentivized for both governors not to tell us. They don’t build systems to alert us, because it’s okay if they get paid extra in that regard. So, as we discover these cracks in the current system, we shut down those areas of waste,” he added.
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Dr. Oz also shared details with Fox News last week about his plans to “crush fraud, waste and abuse, and stop the depraved people who are stealing from taxpayers and vulnerable Americans.”
.@CMSGov is prepared to crush fraud, waste, and abuse, and stop the depraved people who are stealing from taxpayers and vulnerable Americans. Learn more about what CMS is doing to protect and save our #Medicare and #Medicaid programs, and how you can help: https://t.co/jhFGg5tJSw pic.twitter.com/6XAKVnWfe5
— DrOzCMS (@DrOzCMS) May 2, 2025
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