On April 3, the U.S. Senate confirmed Dr. Mehmet Oz as the new administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) with a 53-45 party-line vote.
Medicaid, the joint federal and state health insurance program for low-income individuals, misspent at least $4.3 billion over a three-year period by covering the same patients twice.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that he was restructuring HHS to be more efficient by merging some of its divisions and terminating about 10,000 employees.
