Steven Parker Simmons, MD| Geriatric Medicine | MedStar Health
Clinical areas of focus
- Aging
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Constipation
- Delirium
- Dementia
- Elder Abuse
- Failure To Thrive
- Frailty
- Geriatric Pain Management
- Geriatrics
- Home Health
- Homebound
- Memory Disorders
- Polypharmacy
- Pressure Ulcer
Conditions and procedures
Conditions I treat
- Aging
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Behavioral Issues In Dementia
- Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
- Cognitive Impairment
- Constipation
- Degenerative Brain Disorder
- Delirium
- Dementia
- Disorder Of Balance
- Dysphagia
- Elder Abuse
- Failure To Thrive
- Falls
- Fatigue
- Fecal Incontinence
- Female Urinary Incontinence
- Frailty
- Frontotemporal Neurocognitive Disorder
- Geriatrics
- Homebound
- Lewy Body Dementia
- Male Urinary Incontinence
- Malnutrition
- Memory Disorders
- Mild Cognitive Impairment
- Multiple Chronic Illnesses
- Muscle Weakness
- Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
- Osteoporosis
- Parkinson's Disease (PD)
- Polypharmacy
- Pressure Ulcer
- Senility
- Sensory Impairment
- Swallowing Problem
- Unsteady Gait
- Urinary Incontinence
- Vascular Neurocognitive Disorder
- Visual Impairment
Procedures I perform
- Alzheimer's Testing
- Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Fall Risk Assessment
- Geriatric Pain Management
- Home Health
- Neurocognitive Testing
- Nursing Home Care
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
- Tricare East Select
- United Select HMO - EPO/NPP
- United Optimum Choice
- Medicaid - Virginia
- Medicaid - District of Columbia
- CareFirst NASCO
- Uniformed Services Family Health Plan (USFHP)
- Kaiser HMO Plus and DHMO Plus Member
- Priority Partners - Maryland Health Choice
- Innovation Health: Open Network Only Plus
- Kaiser Permanente Signature-Added Choice
- Innovation Health: Network Only Plus
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthy Families
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage prescription drug benefit (PPO)
- Cigna POS Open Access & Open Access Plus
- WellPoint Maryland - Maryland Health Choice
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthcare Alliance
- Cigna Indemnity
- United Select Plus (POS)
- United Navigate
- Carefirst Blue Preferred PPO
- Kaiser Medicare Plus
- UnitedHealthcare Individual Exchange Plans
- Kaiser Select
- Tricare Reserve Select
- HumanaChoice Honor’s plan PPO
- United Community Plan - Maryland Health Choice Program
- Aetna Choice POS & Choice POS II
- United Student Resources
- Aetna Open HMO/Open HMO Option/Open EPO Plus
- Aetna Student Health Insurance
- HumanaChoice PPO
- Cigna Network Open Access
- Beech Street PPO
- CareFirst MedStar Select PPO
- Virginia Premier
- CareFirst Maryland Indemnity or PPO
- United MD IPA Preferred (POS)
- Aetna Signature Administrator PPO/TPA
- United Nursing Home Plan (C-SNP
- United Erickson Advantage Plans
- Carefirst Healthy Blue (HMO/POS)
- Employee Health Plan (EHP)
- Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
- United AARP Medicare Complete
- CareFirst BC/BS Advantage Core/Enhanced
- Federal Employee Program (Std/Basic PPO/Blue Focus)
- Cigna TotalCare (HMO D-SNP)
- Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
- Kaiser Signature
- Kaiser Flexible Choice
- Maryland Point of Service Plan (MPOS)
- Cigna HMO Open Access
- Private Health Care Systems (PHCS) (PPO)
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
- Cigna HMO & Network (HMO)
- Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund)
- Tricare East Prime
- Kaiser Select-Added Choice
- WellPoint Maryland
- HealthyBlue PPO
- Innovation Health: Indemnity
- Kaiser Medicare Advantage Signature and Select
- CareFirst MedStar PPO
- Aetna Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
- Innovation Health: Open POS Plus
- Traditional Medicare Fee for Service
- Cigna Achieve Medicare (HMO C-SNP)
- I-SNP
- Veterans Affairs Community Care Network
- United Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) & OCI Direct (HMO)
- Innovation Health: POS Plus
- United Choice
- United Options (PPO) (includes Empire PPO)
- Carefirst BlueChoice Opt Out Open Access
- Cigna EPO
- Innovation Health: HMO & EPO Plus
- Innovation Health: PPO
- Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
- Innovation Health: Open POS II
- United Core Essential (HMO)
- United GEHA (for all other states) Compass Rose
- United Medicare Advantage DSNP District of Columbia
- Cigna POS/Network POS
- CareFirst Administrators
- Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
- Carefirst BlueChoice HMO
- Veterans Affairs Community Care Network (VA CCN)
- D-SNP)
- United Golden Rule
- Cigna Choice Fund PPO
- United Choice Plus
- CareFirst (NCA) Indemnity
- Carefirst BlueChoice Open Access
- Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
- Aetna HMO
- Health Services for Children with Special Needs (HSCSN)
- Cigna PPO and PPO Plus
- Carefirst BlueChoice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)
- United Mamsi Life & Health
- United MD IPA (HMO)
- Tricare for Life East
- Cigna True Choice Plus Medicare (PPO)
- Aetna HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
- Cigna Alliance Medicare (HMO) |
- Cigna Preferred Medicare
- United Group Medicare Advantage Plans
- Medicaid - Maryland
- Innovation Health: POS
- Police and Fire Clinic
- Cigna True Choice Medicare (PPO)
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage
- Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA
- Carefirst EPO
- CareFirst Blue Card Program (Out-of-area BCBS plans)
- Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
- First Health PPO
- Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO
- Coventry Health Care of Virginia
- Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
Education
Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine
Residency: Exempla Lutheran Medical Center (1996)
Medical School: University of Tennessee Health Science Center Internal Medicine (1993)