← Chronicle · Confirmation · April 3, 2025

Mehmet Oz Confirmed as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 53–45

Senate vote: 53–45

Mehmet Oz was confirmed by the Senate as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on April 3, 2025, by a vote of 53–45 (Senate roll call vote 167, nomination PN12-34).

The mission that started here is the administration’s Medicare and Medicaid program-integrity agenda inside Secretary Kennedy’s Health and Human Services department — the file this chronicle tracks through the fraud task force record, where Oz appears alongside Vice President Vance, and through the drug-pricing announcements paged in the video collection. His full profile, including the attributed criticism of his signature enforcement figures, lives on his team page.

Sources: U.S. Senate roll call votes, 119th Congress, 1st session — vote 167, April 3, 2025 (senate.gov), confirming Mehmet Oz, of Pennsylvania, to be Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (PN12-34).