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
Practice locations
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2115 Wisconsin Ave NW
Ste 200
Washington, DC, 20007
3800 Reservoir Rd NW
4 N Main
Washington, DC, 20007
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
- Aetna Advantage 5750
- Amerigroup DC Healthy Families
- IH-POS
- Blue Choice Advantage
- Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
- Geisinger Medicare Advantage
- United Healthcare Select HMO - EPO/NPP
- First Health PPO
- CIGNA Connect EPO
- POS OA
- Cigna True Choice Plus Medicare (PPO)
- Aetna Premier 200PD
- United Healthcare Community Plan - VA Medicaid MCO
- Optimum Choice & Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) Cardiac Global
- Aetna Classic 5000
- CareFirst Administrators
- TRICARE East Prime
- Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
- HumanaChoice PPO
- IH-Open HMO
- Medicare FFS
- CareFirst BlueChoice HMO
- CIGNA PPO Plus
- Cigna Alliance Medicare (HMO)
- United Healthcare Choice Plus Cardiac Global
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO) Cardiac Global
- Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO
- Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
- Choice Fund PPO
- NYC Medicare Advantage Plus
- Aetna Better Health of MD
- Core Essential (HMO)
- UnitedHealthcare Individual Exchange Plans
- CareFirst FEP Blue Focus
- Magellan Complete Care of VA - VA Medicaid MCO
- Cigna True Choice Medicare (PPO)
- UHC Passport
- Aetna Student Health Insurance
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthy Families
- OCI Direct (HMO)
- Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA/HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
- CareFirst Federal Employee Program (Std. & Basic PPO)
- Choice POS II
- CareFirst Blue Card Program
- CareFirst Dual Prime HMO-SNP
- Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue Plus
- CareFirst EPO
- Uniformed Services Family Health Plan
- Optimum Choice
- HighMark
- Aetna HMO
- TriWest Healthcare Alliance
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO)
- United Healthcare Choice Plus
- Priority Partners - Maryland Health Choice
- Maryland Physicians Care MCO
- United HealthCare Community Plan - Maryland Health Choice Program
- Aetna Better Health of VA
- CareFirst Community Health Plan of MD
- United Healthcare Select Plus (POS)
- Kaiser Permanente Select
- Private Fee-for-Service Plans (PFFS)
- IH-PPO
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice 3-tier POS
- United Medicare Private Fee-for-Service (PFFS) plans
- IH-Open Network Only Plus
- Network OA
- Cigna Preferred Medicare (HMO)
- United Healthcare Select HMO-EPO/NPP Cardiac Global
- Options PPO Cardiac Global
- Advantra Platinum (PPO)
- CareFirst Maryland Indemnity or PPO
- Kaiser Permaenete Signature - Added Choice Cardiac Global
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage prescription drug benefit (PPO)
- Kaiser Permanente Signature
- CareFirst Maryland Point of Service Plan
- CIGNA PPO
- Aetna Classic 3500
- CareFirst Blue Preferred PPO
- CareFirst MedStar PPO
- HUMANA/Choice Care Medicare Plans (Choice, Gold Choice)
- IH-POS Plus
- HumanaChoice Honor's plan PPO
- CIGNA EPO
- TRICARE for Life East
- CIGNA HMO & Network (HMO)
- CIGNA POS/Network POS
- Tricare Reserve Select
- United Student Resources
- Medicare Direct
- Employee Health Plan
- Aetna Worker's Compensation Network
- Kaiser Permanente Select - Added Choice
- Aetna Advantage 6350
- Cigna TotalCare (HMO D-SNP)
- CareFirst Blue Choice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)
- First Health PPO
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- Kaiser Permanente Signature - Added Choice
- Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
- Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
- Aetna Medicare Advantage PFFS Plan
- Choice Care Network/HUMANA (PPO)
- Humana Medicare Advantage - PPO
- M.D. IPA Preferred (POS)
- Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund)
- Aetna Signature Administrator PPO/TPA
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD HMO
- Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue SNP
- Healthy Blue (HMO, POS)
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD PPO
- BCBS Out-of-State Medicare Plans (Blue Advantage)
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
- AMERIVANTAGE/Amerigroup Community Care
- United Healthcare Navigate Cardiac Global
- Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
- IH-Indemnity
- Aetna Basic
- HealthyBlue PPO
- Private Health Care Systems (PPO)
- United Healthcare Choice
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Adv. Special Needs Plans
- Lasso Healthcare - Medicare Medical Savings Account
- Optima Family Care MCO - VA Medicaid MCO
- Kaiser Permanente Select Cardiac Global
- TRICARE East Select
- Veterans Affairs Community Care Network
- MD IPA (HMO) & MD IPA Preferred Cardiac Global
- Navigate
- Alterwood Advanatge HMO & DSNP Plans
- Police and Fire Clinic
- IH-Network Only Plus
- Amerigroup DC Alliance
- United Healthcare Choice Cardiac Global
- Humana Gold Plus HMO
- M.D. IPA (HMO)
- DC/MD SHOP QHP Small Business Plans
- CIGNA SureFit (HMO)
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers (POS & POS OA)
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Advantage Signature and Select
- IH-Open POS Plus
- Anthem BCBS of VA Key Care POS/PPO/Indemnity
- CIGNA Indemnity
- MultiPlan, Inc
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthy Families
- Beech Street PPO
- CareFirst (NCA) Indemnity
- Coventry Health Care of Virginia
- IH-HMO
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage
- BCBS of Michigan (BCN Advantage,Security Blue, Freedom, Medicare PLUS Blue Group PPO)
- OA Plus
- Optimum Choice Preferred (POS)
- Choice POS II Open Access
- CareFirst MedStar Select PPO
- Kaiser Maryland Medicaid MCO
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage DSNP District of Columbia
- Jai Medical Systems - Maryland Health Choice
- Erickson Advantage Plans
- CIGNA HMO Open Access
- Aetna Classic 5000PD
- IH-Open EPO Plus
- United Healthcare Options (PPO)
- UnitedHealthcare and AARP Medicare Complete Plans
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue Dual Adv
- UHC Group Medicare Advantage Plans (HMO, POS, PPO)
- Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
- CareFirst Blue Choice Opt Out Open Access
- Cigna Achieve Medicare (HMO C-SNP)
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Plus
- Medicare Advantage - Advantra Value (PPO)
- Anthem Federal Employee Program Standard
- Anthem Federal Employee Program Basic
- Fee-for-Service (FFS) District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia Medicaid
- Kaiser Permanente HMO Plus and DHMO Plus Member
- IH-Open HMO Option
- Choice POS
- IH-Open POS II
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers (HMO)
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice POS Cardiac Global
- Humana Medicare Advantage - HMO Open Access
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthcare Alliance
- WellPoint Maryland - Maryland Health Choice
- Aetna Advantage 6350PD
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers Plus
- CareFirst NASCO
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD PLUS PPO
- BlueChoice Open Access
- Aetna VA Exchange
- IH-EPO Plus
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthcare Alliance
- CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Advantage Core/Enhanced
- Health Services for Children with Special Needs
- Sentara Health
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)