Dr. Steinberg is the President of the California Association of Long Term Care Medicine (CALTCM), which is the state chapter of the American Medical Directors Association (AMDA). 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 several assisted living facilities. He serves as Medical Director 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 SHARP Mission Park Medical Group, where he is the founder and director of the Skilled Nursing Facility and the Chairman 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 100 law firms, insurance carriers and quality assurance organizations in 20+ states, in over 300 cases since 1994 and has testified at trial ten times, at deposition about 75 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. Slightly more defense than plaintiff. Less than 20% 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: President, Calfornia Association of Long Term Care Medicine. Public Policy Committee, AMDA. 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 2002, 2003, 2004. Spoke at CAHF's Quality Health Care Foundation in 2005 on new F501 guidelines to surveyors on SNF Medical Directors; Faculty for AMDA's Nursing Home Primer 2006; other engagements available on request.
Q: On how many occasions have you been retained as an expert?
A: 300+
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, Legal Malpractice, Testamentary Capacity, Life Care Planning.
Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the plaintiff?
A: 45
Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the defendant?
A: 55
Q: On how many occasions have you had your deposition taken?
A: Roughly 70
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 10
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: 600
Q: What is your hourly rate to provide testimony at trial?
A: 800/hr, 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
