Oz Backs Curbing MA Overpayments, Streamlining Prior Authorization During Nomination Hearing

Despite past criticism of being too supportive of private Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, President Donald Trump’s nominee for CMS administrator, Mehmet Oz, repeatedly acknowledged issues within the program that he agreed needed to be fixed during his Senate Finance Committee nomination hearing -- answers that seemed to earn him a few points with committee Democrats despite him dodging a number of questions about whether he’d oppose deep cuts to the Medicaid program in the GOP’s upcoming reconciliation bill. During Friday’s...