It was excellent to be able to interview Salil Deshpande, M.D. last week, during the final session of the Health IT Summit in Houston, sponsored by our sister organization, the Institute for Health Technology Transformation (iHT2). I was hoping that Dr. Desphande, chief medical officer of the Houston-based United Healthcare Community Plan of Texas, a division of United Healthcare of Texas, might be able to offer some insights on some of the populations that United Healthcare serves in Houston and across Texas, and he indeed was able to do so.
I was particularly interested in Dr. Deshpande’s insights around the Medicare/Medicaid dual-eligible population. That is a population with very intense needs and extremely difficult situations, with many elements that are not strictly clinical, but rather, involve socioeconomic and other factors. I’ve been writing about care management for dual-eligibles for nearly 20 years now, and it is in fact the combination of clinical issues and often very intensive social determinants of care and care management, that makes it so challenging to care for these health plan members/patients. For the full article click here
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