Oz to Cut Ties with Supplement Maker, Sell Stocks If Confirmed

Celebrity physician Mehmet Oz, tapped by President Donald Trump to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is pledging to sever ties with a nutritional supplement maker and dozens of other companies across the health-care sector if confirmed by the US Senate to the post.

Oz listed assets worth at least $94 million, according to a 40-page financial disclosure released Wednesday by the federal Office of Government Ethics. Nominees value their holdings in broad ranges in the documents.

In an accompanying ethics agreement, he detailed how he would resolve potential conflicts of interest, promising to divest holdings ...