One of the world's most famous doctors and TV personalities could soon run the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity physician nominated by President Donald Trump to oversee the government's Medicare and Medicaid health plans, appears to have underpaid his own Medicare taxes by over $400,

Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity physician who President Donald Trump has nominated to oversee the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), may have potentially underpaid on his Medicare and Social Security taxes.

Dr. Oz ‘significantly underpaid’ his taxes, Democrats say as they prepare to grill him in confirmation hearing - The TV doctor has been nominated by Trump to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid

Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, may have “significantly” underpaid Social Security and Medicare taxes in recent years, according to a memo by Democratic staff on the Senate Finance Committee seen by Bloomberg News.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity physician nominated by President Donald Trump to oversee Medicare and Medicaid, appears to have underpaid his U.S. Social Security and Medicare taxes in recent years, according to a memo by Democratic staffers on the Senate Finance Committee.

Trump’s allegiance to Oz was further emphasized on Tuesday when the president announced he was nominating Oz’s son-in-law, John Jovanovic, to head the Export-Import Bank of the United States.

Warren also asks whether Oz might end up using the CMS post to make money by promoting the Ozempic weight-loss drug or by making moves that would increase revenue from a patent on a heart valve surgery he helped invent while he was a professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Columbia University's medical school.

The staff memo said from 2021 to 2023 Oz held an interest in Oz Property Holdings LLC, which includes the media production company that ran his successful television show. Oz beli

Senate Finance Committee Democratic tax staff who reviewed Mehmet Oz’s tax returns said the nominee to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services avoided paying some Medicare and Social Security taxes over three years.