Steven Alan Epstein, MD
Provider is directly employed by MedStar Health
Provider is directly employed by MedStar HealthSpecialties: Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine
Languages: English
202-944-5404
About me
Dr. Steve Epstein is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry of the Georgetown University School of Medicine and Chief of Service of the Department of Psychiatry of MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. He is also Physician Executive Director for Behavioral Health for MedStar Health, a non-profit healthcare organization that includes ten hospitals in DC and Maryland. In this role, he oversees physician recruitment, strategic planning, and quality improvement in inpatient and outpatient psychiatric settings.
He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale College and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. After completing a residency in psychiatry at Tufts-New England Medical Center, he was a fellow in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital and Inova Fairfax Hospital. From 1990 to 2000 he directed Georgetown’s Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry service and he became department chair in 2001. He currently directs the Physician Health Committee for the MedStar Health system.
Dr. Epstein has conducted NIH-funded research and published extensively in the area of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. In 2001, he was awarded an RO1 grant from NIMH to study primary care physicians’ decision-making in the evaluation and treatment of depression. He has also been principal investigator on two other NIMH grants in this area. He has been the recipient of four teaching awards from Georgetown psychiatry residents. In 2011 he was elected by his peers to the MAGIS Society of Masters Teachers of the Georgetown University School of Medicine.
In 2016 Dr. Epstein served as President of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, the 1400 member national organization for Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. He recently ended his term as Vice Chair of the Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Committee of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. In July 2015, he was appointed to a six-year term as a member of the Psychiatry Review Committee for the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. For the past seven years he has been a visiting Professor at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret, Kenya.
Clinical areas of focus
- Bipolar Disorder Treatment
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Depression Treatment
- Mood Disorder Treatment
- Psychopharmacology
- Psychotherapy
Conditions and procedures
Procedures I perform
- Anxiety Disorder Treatment
- Bipolar Disorder Treatment
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Depression Treatment
- Mood Disorder Treatment
- Psychopharmacology
- Psychotherapy
- Schizophrenia Treatment
Insurance
MedStar Health accepts most major health insurance plans. If you are uncertain as to whether your individual health insurance plan is accepted at MedStar Health, please call your insurance company.
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List of insurance plans we accept
- IH-Open POS Plus
- Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA/HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
- United Healthcare Navigate Cardiac Global
- Aetna Signature Administrator PPO/TPA
- UnitedHealthcare and AARP Medicare Complete Plans
- IH-Open POS II
- Choice Fund PPO
- TRICARE East Prime
- MD IPA (HMO) & MD IPA Preferred Cardiac Global
- Choice Care Network/HUMANA (PPO)
- Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- WellPoint Maryland - Maryland Health Choice
- Aetna Medicare Advantage PFFS Plan
- CareFirst Administrators
- CareFirst Blue Choice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD HMO
- Blue Choice Advantage
- Aetna Classic 5000PD
- CareFirst FEP Blue Focus
- Core Essential (HMO)
- Cigna Preferred Medicare (HMO)
- Cigna True Choice Medicare (PPO)
- TriWest Healthcare Alliance
- Health Services for Children with Special Needs
- BCBS of Michigan (BCN Advantage,Security Blue, Freedom, Medicare PLUS Blue Group PPO)
- Aetna VA Exchange
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue Plus
- HealthyBlue PPO
- CIGNA POS/Network POS
- POS OA
- Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
- Anthem Federal Employee Program Standard
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
- CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Advantage Core/Enhanced
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers (POS & POS OA)
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Advantage Signature and Select
- Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
- Employee Health Plan
- IH-POS Plus
- Kaiser Permanente Signature
- HighMark
- Aetna Advantage 5750
- Kaiser Permanente Signature - Added Choice
- Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
- United Healthcare Choice
- CareFirst Dual Prime HMO-SNP
- Aetna Basic
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Plus
- M.D. IPA (HMO)
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthcare Alliance
- CIGNA SureFit (HMO)
- Anthem BCBS of VA Key Care POS/PPO/Indemnity
- United Healthcare Select HMO - EPO/NPP
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD PPO
- Options PPO Cardiac Global
- HumanaChoice Honor's plan PPO
- CIGNA PPO
- Aetna Classic 3500
- Humana Medicare Advantage - HMO Open Access
- Amerigroup DC Alliance
- Amerigroup DC Healthy Families
- CIGNA HMO Open Access
- Humana Medicare Advantage - PPO
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice 3-tier POS
- BCBS Out-of-State Medicare Plans (Blue Advantage)
- United Student Resources
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthcare Alliance
- Veterans Affairs Community Care Network
- Advantra Platinum (PPO)
- IH-EPO Plus
- CareFirst EPO
- Cigna True Choice Plus Medicare (PPO)
- UnitedHealthcare Individual Exchange Plans
- IH-Open HMO
- Aetna Better Health of VA
- Network OA
- Aetna Student Health Insurance
- CareFirst MedStar Select PPO
- Maryland Physicians Care MCO
- Kaiser Permaenete Signature - Added Choice Cardiac Global
- Optimum Choice
- Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
- HUMANA/Choice Care Medicare Plans (Choice, Gold Choice)
- First Health PPO
- Cigna TotalCare (HMO D-SNP)
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue Dual Adv
- Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
- Choice POS
- UHC Group Medicare Advantage Plans (HMO, POS, PPO)
- Tricare Reserve Select
- Medicare Advantage - Advantra Value (PPO)
- CareFirst Federal Employee Program (Std. & Basic PPO)
- Police and Fire Clinic
- OCI Direct (HMO)
- NYC Medicare Advantage Plus
- IH-PPO
- CareFirst NASCO
- Geisinger Medicare Advantage
- UHC Passport
- Kaiser Permanente Select Cardiac Global
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage
- Aetna Advantage 6350PD
- Jai Medical Systems - Maryland Health Choice
- Priority Partners - Maryland Health Choice
- Kaiser Permanente Select - Added Choice
- MultiPlan, Inc
- DC/MD SHOP QHP Small Business Plans
- Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO
- Kaiser Permanente HMO Plus and DHMO Plus Member
- United Healthcare Choice Plus
- IH-Indemnity
- CareFirst Blue Card Program
- BlueChoice Open Access
- CareFirst Blue Choice Opt Out Open Access
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO)
- Private Fee-for-Service Plans (PFFS)
- Aetna Worker's Compensation Network
- CIGNA PPO Plus
- M.D. IPA Preferred (POS)
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO) Cardiac Global
- CIGNA Indemnity
- United Healthcare Select Plus (POS)
- United Medicare Private Fee-for-Service (PFFS) plans
- Navigate
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers (HMO)
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD PLUS PPO
- Choice POS II Open Access
- OA Plus
- Beech Street PPO
- Fee-for-Service (FFS) District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia Medicaid
- CareFirst BlueChoice HMO
- Lasso Healthcare - Medicare Medical Savings Account
- Aetna Advantage 6350
- Coventry Health Care of Virginia
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue SNP
- United Healthcare Choice Cardiac Global
- IH-Open HMO Option
- Healthy Blue (HMO, POS)
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage prescription drug benefit (PPO)
- IH-HMO
- Anthem Federal Employee Program Basic
- CareFirst MedStar PPO
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthy Families
- Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
- TRICARE for Life East
- IH-Open EPO Plus
- CIGNA EPO
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice POS Cardiac Global
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers Plus
- Cigna Achieve Medicare (HMO C-SNP)
- Sentara Health
- Optimum Choice Preferred (POS)
- HumanaChoice PPO
- Cigna Alliance Medicare (HMO)
- Alterwood Advanatge HMO & DSNP Plans
- Kaiser Maryland Medicaid MCO
- CareFirst (NCA) Indemnity
- United Healthcare Select HMO-EPO/NPP Cardiac Global
- Aetna Better Health of MD
- Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
- CIGNA HMO & Network (HMO)
- CareFirst Maryland Point of Service Plan
- IH-Network Only Plus
- CIGNA Connect EPO
- United Healthcare Community Plan - VA Medicaid MCO
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthy Families
- Aetna HMO
- First Health PPO
- TRICARE East Select
- IH-Open Network Only Plus
- Choice POS II
- CareFirst Blue Preferred PPO
- Optima Family Care MCO - VA Medicaid MCO
- Optimum Choice & Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) Cardiac Global
- Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund)
- Medicare Direct
- AMERIVANTAGE/Amerigroup Community Care
- Erickson Advantage Plans
- United Healthcare Choice Plus Cardiac Global
- Aetna Premier 200PD
- United HealthCare Community Plan - Maryland Health Choice Program
- Aetna Classic 5000
- Private Health Care Systems (PPO)
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage DSNP District of Columbia
- Medicare FFS
- IH-POS
- Kaiser Permanente Select
- Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
- CareFirst Community Health Plan of MD
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Adv. Special Needs Plans
- CareFirst Maryland Indemnity or PPO
- Uniformed Services Family Health Plan
- Humana Gold Plus HMO
- Magellan Complete Care of VA - VA Medicaid MCO
- United Healthcare Options (PPO)
Education
Board Certification: American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, Psychiatry
Board Certification: American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, Psychosomatic Medicine
Fellowship: Georgetown University Medical Center GME (1990)
Residency: Tufts Medical Center (1989)
Internship: Tufts Medical Center (1986)
Medical School: Perelman School Of Medicine At The University Of Pennsylvania (1985)