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
- Choice POS II
- CIGNA POS/Network POS
- IH-Open EPO Plus
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthcare Alliance
- M.D. IPA Preferred (POS)
- UnitedHealthcare and AARP Medicare Complete Plans
- Tricare Reserve Select
- MD IPA (HMO) & MD IPA Preferred Cardiac Global
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD PLUS PPO
- Kaiser Maryland Medicaid MCO
- Options PPO Cardiac Global
- Police and Fire Clinic
- Aetna Better Health of MD
- Medicare FFS
- OCI Direct (HMO)
- UHC Passport
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice POS Cardiac Global
- Aetna Advantage 6350PD
- Choice POS
- Aetna Signature Administrator PPO/TPA
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
- Network OA
- Choice Fund PPO
- Aetna Student Health Insurance
- CareFirst (NCA) Indemnity
- CareFirst Administrators
- CareFirst Blue Card Program
- CareFirst Maryland Indemnity or PPO
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice 3-tier POS
- CareFirst NASCO
- Kaiser Permanente Select Cardiac Global
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO) Cardiac Global
- IH-EPO Plus
- CareFirst EPO
- Cigna Achieve Medicare (HMO C-SNP)
- UnitedHealthcare Individual Exchange Plans
- Medicare Direct
- CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Advantage Core/Enhanced
- Erickson Advantage Plans
- DC/MD SHOP QHP Small Business Plans
- United Healthcare Choice Plus
- Choice POS II Open Access
- United Healthcare Select HMO-EPO/NPP Cardiac Global
- Aetna Premier 200PD
- CareFirst Blue Choice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)
- United HealthCare Community Plan - Maryland Health Choice Program
- Health Services for Children with Special Needs
- First Health PPO
- Humana Gold Plus HMO
- CareFirst Blue Choice Opt Out Open Access
- HealthyBlue PPO
- TRICARE for Life East
- Optima Family Care MCO - VA Medicaid MCO
- Optimum Choice & Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) Cardiac Global
- HumanaChoice PPO
- Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
- Beech Street PPO
- IH-Indemnity
- Maryland Physicians Care MCO
- Optimum Choice
- IH-Network Only Plus
- Kaiser Permanente Signature
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthy Families
- Uniformed Services Family Health Plan
- BCBS Out-of-State Medicare Plans (Blue Advantage)
- HUMANA/Choice Care Medicare Plans (Choice, Gold Choice)
- United Student Resources
- IH-HMO
- CareFirst MedStar PPO
- Advantra Platinum (PPO)
- CareFirst Blue Preferred PPO
- United Medicare Private Fee-for-Service (PFFS) plans
- United Healthcare Navigate Cardiac Global
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers (HMO)
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD PPO
- WellPoint Maryland - Maryland Health Choice
- Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
- Employee Health Plan
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD HMO
- CareFirst MedStar Select PPO
- CIGNA HMO & Network (HMO)
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage DSNP District of Columbia
- Kaiser Permaenete Signature - Added Choice Cardiac Global
- Aetna Classic 5000PD
- CareFirst FEP Blue Focus
- CareFirst Community Health Plan of MD
- TriWest Healthcare Alliance
- Aetna Advantage 5750
- Anthem Federal Employee Program Basic
- United Healthcare Choice
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue Plus
- CareFirst Dual Prime HMO-SNP
- Private Fee-for-Service Plans (PFFS)
- Aetna Basic
- POS OA
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthcare Alliance
- M.D. IPA (HMO)
- Aetna Worker's Compensation Network
- CIGNA SureFit (HMO)
- Anthem BCBS of VA Key Care POS/PPO/Indemnity
- Cigna True Choice Plus Medicare (PPO)
- Sentara Health
- IH-Open HMO
- TRICARE East Prime
- Alterwood Advanatge HMO & DSNP Plans
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers (POS & POS OA)
- Kaiser Permanente HMO Plus and DHMO Plus Member
- CIGNA PPO
- Humana Medicare Advantage - HMO Open Access
- United Healthcare Community Plan - VA Medicaid MCO
- IH-Open HMO Option
- Amerigroup DC Healthy Families
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage prescription drug benefit (PPO)
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO)
- Geisinger Medicare Advantage
- First Health PPO
- TRICARE East Select
- CIGNA EPO
- Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund)
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue Dual Adv
- CIGNA Indemnity
- Priority Partners - Maryland Health Choice
- Optimum Choice Preferred (POS)
- Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
- Aetna Better Health of VA
- Cigna Alliance Medicare (HMO)
- Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO
- Lasso Healthcare - Medicare Medical Savings Account
- IH-POS
- Coventry Health Care of Virginia
- IH-PPO
- Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthy Families
- Veterans Affairs Community Care Network
- Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
- Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA/HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
- United Healthcare Select Plus (POS)
- UHC Group Medicare Advantage Plans (HMO, POS, PPO)
- IH-Open POS II
- CareFirst Federal Employee Program (Std. & Basic PPO)
- Choice Care Network/HUMANA (PPO)
- Aetna Medicare Advantage PFFS Plan
- OA Plus
- Aetna Classic 5000
- Aetna Advantage 6350
- Core Essential (HMO)
- Cigna True Choice Medicare (PPO)
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Adv. Special Needs Plans
- NYC Medicare Advantage Plus
- Humana Medicare Advantage - PPO
- HighMark
- Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
- Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Plus
- IH-Open POS Plus
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers Plus
- Jai Medical Systems - Maryland Health Choice
- United Healthcare Select HMO - EPO/NPP
- Navigate
- Kaiser Permanente Select - Added Choice
- MultiPlan, Inc
- Medicare Advantage - Advantra Value (PPO)
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- HumanaChoice Honor's plan PPO
- United Healthcare Choice Plus Cardiac Global
- Fee-for-Service (FFS) District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia Medicaid
- Aetna Classic 3500
- CareFirst BlueChoice HMO
- Private Health Care Systems (PPO)
- CareFirst Maryland Point of Service Plan
- IH-POS Plus
- Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
- CIGNA Connect EPO
- Healthy Blue (HMO, POS)
- CIGNA HMO Open Access
- BlueChoice Open Access
- Kaiser Permanente Signature - Added Choice
- Magellan Complete Care of VA - VA Medicaid MCO
- Aetna HMO
- United Healthcare Options (PPO)
- IH-Open Network Only Plus
- CIGNA PPO Plus
- Cigna TotalCare (HMO D-SNP)
- Anthem Federal Employee Program Standard
- AMERIVANTAGE/Amerigroup Community Care
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Advantage Signature and Select
- Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
- Blue Choice Advantage
- Amerigroup DC Alliance
- Kaiser Permanente Select
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue SNP
- Cigna Preferred Medicare (HMO)
- United Healthcare Choice Cardiac Global
- BCBS of Michigan (BCN Advantage,Security Blue, Freedom, Medicare PLUS Blue Group PPO)
- Aetna VA Exchange
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)