When drawing up a list of which Trump nominees are likely to spark important confirmation fights on Capitol Hill, it's worth keeping Dr. Mehmet Oz near the top.

Mehmet Oz, a celebrity heart surgeon turned talk show host and lifestyle guru, is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the massive federal health care bureaucracy that covers more than a third of Americans.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, Donald Trump's pick to oversee Medicare and Medicaid, has evolved on health care policy over the years.

Oz has made his preference known for privatized Medicare, which could substantially disrupt the current system.

The inheritance battle that divided Dr. Mehmet Oz's family has resurfaced after Donald Trump nominated the TV doctor to lead Medicaid and Medicare.

Oz used his TikTok page on multiple occasions in November to praise Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., including their efforts to take on the “illness-industrial complex,” and he slammed “so-called experts like the big medical societies” for dishing out what he called bad nutritional advice.

Dr. Oz holds a plethora of investments in healthcare, pharmaceutical, health insurance and health research companies

Dr. Mehmet Oz could hold millions of dollars in investments in companies regulated by the federal agency Donald Trump has tapped him to lead. During his failed Senate run in 2022, the former talk show host reported tens of millions of dollars in investments in health care,

Dr. Mehmet Oz — who Donald Trump nominated last week to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS — holds "stake in UnitedHealth Group worth as much as $600,000, as well as shares of pharmaceutical firms and tech companies with business in the healthcare sector,