Dr. Oz and Tony Robbins at the 2026 CMS Quality Conference
March 26, 2026 · CMSHHSgov · 1:49:09
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What happened
At the 2026 CMS Quality Conference, Dr. Oz sat for a full fireside conversation with author and speaker Tony Robbins, published by CMS on March 26, 2026. Robbins opened by thanking the assembled federal health workforce, saying they represent somewhere between 70 and 100 million Americans and are among the most underappreciated people in the culture for choosing public service over more lucrative private-sector work.
Oz framed the session against the conference’s work of, as he put it, reshaping the landscape of American medicine, and pointed to the financial elements the CMS team runs — costs he described as having become daunting for a lot of Americans — alongside the human side of the system.
Why it matters
The Quality Conference is CMS’s flagship internal gathering, and Oz has used it both years of his tenure to set the agency’s public tone — prevention, quality, and cost — in front of the career workforce that executes it. Bringing in an outside motivational figure of Robbins’s profile is a deliberate piece of stagecraft aimed at that workforce, and it shows the television instincts Oz has brought to the administrator’s office.
Sources: CMSHHSgov (CMS official channel), “2026 Quality Conference - Fireside Chat with Dr. Oz and Tony Robbins,” March 26, 2026 (official upload, embedded above).
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