Dr. Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump’s nominee to oversee the Center for Medicare and Medicare Services, may have “significantly” underpaid Medicare and Social Security taxes.

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.

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.

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

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.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity physician nominated by President Donald Trump to oversee Medicare and Medicaid, appears to have underpaid his social security and Medicare taxes in recent years, according to a memo drafted 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.

Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead CMS, paid no Social Security or Medicare taxes in 2023 and “negligible” amounts in 2022, the memo said.