Dr. Oz appointed to head CMS, the Medicare and Medicaid agency.

• Dr. Mehmet Oz will be nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to head the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
• Health-care programs covering approximately half of Americans are overseen by CMS, which includes Medicare, Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program, and Healthcare.gov.
• Last week, Trump announced that he planned to appoint Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic and conspiracy theorist, to the position of Secretary of the Health and Human Services Department, which includes CMS.

On Tuesday, Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity TV host physician, was announced by President-elect Donald Trump as his nominee to head the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Health-care programs covering approximately half of Americans are overseen by CMS, which includes Medicare, Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program, and Healthcare.gov.

Nearly 25% of the entire federal budget is accounted for by the four programs that have a combined spending of $1.6 trillion.

CMS is an agency within the Health and Human Services Department.

Trump announced last week that he planned to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic and conspiracy theorist, for the position of HHS secretary.

Trump announced his intention to nominate Oz, stating that our broken healthcare system harms everyday Americans and crushes our country's budget.

"Dr. Oz will lead in promoting disease prevention and reducing waste and fraud in the most expensive government agency, which accounts for a third of our nation's healthcare spending and a quarter of our entire national budget."

Chiquita Brooks-LaSure is the current CMS administrator.

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