CMS chief Oz lays out broad vision amid staff cuts, backlash over AI comments

After drawing backlash from family physician lobbyists for reportedly telling Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that AI could eventually replace human doctors, newly confirmed CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz laid out his policy agenda, Inside Health Policy reported.

Speaking April 10, Oz called for greater price transparency, getting life-saving treatments to patients more quickly, fighting chronic diseases, modernizing health programs, and curbing waste, fraud and abuse -- without explicitly mentioning the role that artificial intelligence would play in this...