>> Hi. I'm Jack Weiss.
I'm the Chief Medical Officer for United Healthcare Community and State
and I'm a 1973 graduate of Temple University School of Medicine.
Well, I have a very large job.
United Healthcare's the 14th largest company in the United States.
The Community and State portion of the United Healthcare,
which is the Medicaid division entails 5 million members of which I have control
over the clinical programs and accountability over the clinical programs
for those 5 million members, 24 markets.
We also have, aside from pure acute Medicare, we have 10 long term care plans which are people
who tend to be placed in long term care facilities or nursing homes.
And then, we also have 12 plans that are we call dual snips, which are dual Medicare,
Medicaid plans and 3 plans that are called MME plans
which are called Medicare Medicaid eligible which is a new variant from CNS
which is a more integrated version of what we've been doing in the dual snip market.
So, I and all the all the clinical programs am presently in the process
of building a new clinical model across community and state which,
ultimately will be the new clinical model for United Healthcare.
The really important thing, I think, for clinicians who, you know,
who are involved in this sort of endeavor,
we tend to be the clinical conscience for the company.
So, it's our role not only to have a clinical lexicon, which we learned in medical school
and so forth and in our years of practice, but also, develop a business lexicon
so that we can translate what we've done in the clinical field, translate it into how the,
how the business people would understand.
And, that's how, frankly, successful physician executives survive.