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Sid & Friends In The Morning

Dr. Mehmet Oz | 17th Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) | 05-15-26

Sid & Friends In The Morning

77 WABC

Sports, Comedy, News

4.2828 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Dr. Mehmet Oz, 17th Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, joins Sid live in-studio to discuss the scope of fraud in healthcare services, explaining how half of the fraud in the federal government could be originating from Medicaid and Medicare services. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Dr. Oz, who's doing an incredible job, working alongside Bobby Kennedy,

1:10.0

President Trump, the fraud issue that continues to plague America.

1:14.3

I just saw I have a friend who works for J.D. Vance.

1:17.4

And she helps set up this big rally in Bangor, Maine two nights ago.

1:21.6

And he talked to the fine folks of Maine about fraud.

1:24.6

And Anthony De Esposito was on the show all the time.

1:27.0

Labor Department, he's uncovered fraud. And Lee Zeldon, EPA, he's uncovered a lot of fraud. So it's become a very, very big issue here in the country. So Dr. Ross, first of all, you look very handsome as always. Good to see you. But let's start right there because, if I'm correct, I just mentioned J.D. and Bangor, Maine, you're about to do a press conference for JD vans coming up on Wednesday, right? Well, we just had a big announcement with the vice president. He leads the White House Anti-Fraud Task Force. So we're doing constant events trying to make it clear to the American people, but more importantly to the fraudsters that were after them. So we don't want them walking away. We want them running away from us. And that's because we have all arms of government working together, which historically has not happened with fraud. And the prior administration quite transparently, there wasn't a lot of interest in fraud. They just didn't think that was a big deal. They weren't focused on it.

2:18.0

But when you don't focus on something bad like fraud, the gangsters, and there are gangsters

2:22.4

literally involved in this, organized criminal syndicates, they take advantage of the system. So we

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