Dr. Steinberg is the Immediate Past President of the California Association of Long Term Care Medicine (CALTCM), which is the state chapter of the American Medical Directors Association (AMDA). He also edits AMDA's periodical, Caring for the Ages, which has a national print circulation of over 40,000. He has worked as a full-time geriatrician and board-certified family physician in San Diego County since 1992. He attends patients at about 15 local skilled nursing facilites and multiple assisted living facilities. He serves as Medical Director for Village Square Nursing Center, a 117-bed Kindred skilled nursing facility in San Marcos, CA, and for Las Villas de Carlsbad Health Center, a nursing home and continuing care retirement center in Carlsbad. He has been Medical Director for Hospice By the Sea in Solana Beach since 1995.
Dr. Steinberg works full-time as Associate Medical Director at Scripps Coastal Medical Center, where he is the founder and director of the Skilled Nursing Facility Team and Chair of the Utilization Management Committee. He is on the clinical faculty for both UCSD and Camp Pendleton Naval Hospital's Family Medicine Residency Programs. As a clinical preceptor in geriatrics and long-term care, Dr. Steinberg teaches rotating family practice residents about nursing home care. He has served as an expert consultant and witness to over 150 law firms, insurance carriers and quality assurance organizations in 20+ states, in over 400 cases since 1994 and has testified at trial 15 times, at deposition about 90 times, and at well over 1000 hearings before ALJs at Social Security's Office of Hearings and Appeals as an expert witness in Medicare and Disability matters.
Balanced Plaintiff/Defense work. Less than 15% of professional time devoted to expert work.
Background
Q: Please list your professional accreditations, degrees, licenses, and certificates granted:A: CV available upon request, or see website www.karlsteinberg.com
Q: Please list your affiliations or memberships in any professional and/or industry organizations:
A: Immediate Past President, Calfornia Association of Long Term Care Medicine. Public Policy Committee, Nominations Committee, AMDA. Numerous Other Memberships. CV available upon request, or see website www.karlsteinberg.com
Q: Please list any teaching or speaking experience you have had, including subject matter:
A: Clinical Faculty at UCSD and Camp Pendleton Naval Hospital's Family Medicine Residency Programs, teaching residents about nursing home care; "Ask the Expert" Participant on Long Term Care for Videojug.com; Invited Speaker for Symposia on Risk Management and Medicolegal Liability for CALTCM meetings many times. Has spoken at CAHF's Quality Health Care Foundation on various topics as well as at their DON Conference; Faculty for AMDA's Nursing Home Primer 2006; Speaker's Bureau for Glaxo; other engagements available on request.
Q: On how many occasions have you been retained as an expert?
A: 400+
Q: For what area(s) of expertise have you been retained as an expert?
A: Nursing Homes, Geriatrics, Long-Term Care, Assisted Living, Dementia, Decubitus Ulcers, Falls in Health Care Facilities, Restraints, Involuntary Weight Loss, Malnutrition, Dehydration, Family Practice, Nursing Home Physician and Medical Director Standard of Care, Hospice and Palliative Care, Medicare, Managed Care, HMO, Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice, Pressure Ulcers, Addiction Medicine, Legal Malpractice, Testamentary Capacity, Life Care Planning.
Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the plaintiff?
A: 50
Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the defendant?
A: 50
Q: On how many occasions have you had your deposition taken?
A: Roughly 90
Q: When was the last time you had your deposition taken?
A: Too recently to update this every time.
Q: On how many occasions have you been qualified by a court to give expert testimony?
A: Never disqualified.
Q: On how many occasions have you testified as an expert in court or before an arbitrator?
A: about 15
Q: For how many years have you worked with the legal industry as an expert?
A: about 10
Q: What services do you offer? (E.g.: consulting, testing, reports, site inspections etc.)
A: Records Review, Report Preparation, Consultation, IMEs, Site Visits, Testimony
Q: What is your hourly rate to consult with an attorney?
A: 400
Q: What is your hourly rate to review documents?
A: 400
Q: What is your hourly rate to provide deposition testimony?
A: 1200 to appear up to 2 hours, 600 hourly thereafter
Q: What is your hourly rate to provide testimony at trial?
A: 3000/half-day, 5000/day
Q: Please list any fees other than those stated above (E.g.: travel expenses, copy fees, etc.)
A: variable but reasonable, not portal-to-portal. Local/regional travel $150/hr.
