Clinical Professor, Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine; President and CEO Sheppard Pratt Health System
Psychiatry
Dr. Steven S. Sharfstein, MD
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Steven Sharfstein practices Psychiatry. He attended Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Jacobi Medical Center. Steven Sharfstein is a published physician. He published 101 publications, including: 'The politics of program evaluation: the mental health experience.'
Publications
- Fixing the troubled mental health system.
- Integrated care.
- Health Care Turning Point: Why Single Payer Won't Work.
- Inpatient care in the 21st century: who needs it?--in reply.
- Enhancing quality and reducing costs in a combined training program: the University of Maryland/Sheppard Pratt experience.
- Inpatient psychiatric care in the 21st century: the need for reform.
- Hospital psychiatry for the twenty-first century.
- Goals of inpatient treatment for psychiatric disorders.
- Big pharma and American psychiatry.
- Commentary: reducing restraint and seclusion: a view from the trenches.
- The two-physician family: a balancing act of work and love.
- The tipping point from private practice to publicly funded settings for early- and mid-career psychiatrists.
- Psychiatry and the consumer movement.
- Some interesting lessons from Canada.
- Response to the presidential address: advocacy for our patients and our profession.
- The loss of federal support for multisite demonstrations.
- The healing power of relationships.
- A proposal for future funding of chronic and episodic mental illness. 1986.
- Ethics in managed care.
- Will parity in coverage result in better mental health care?
- Access to quality care matters.
- Evaluating the workload of on-call psychiatry residents: which activities are associated with sleep loss?
- Psychiatry is alive and well.
- American Psychiatric Association clarifies its position on human rights.
- ADHD drugs and cardiovascular risk.
- Economics redefining the practice of psychiatry.
- An analysis of the two-class system of care in public and private psychiatric hospitals.
- Capitation versus decapitation in mental health care.
- Campaign contributions from the American Medical Political Action Committee to Members of Congress. For or against the public health?
- Quality improvement.
- Financing child and adolescent mental health care.
- Psychiatric care and health insurance reform.
- The National Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association consensus statement on the undertreatment of depression.
- The futures of psychiatry.
- Public-sector managed care and medical necessity.
- Cost-effectiveness of psychiatric care.
- Treatment for severe borderline personality disorder in 1987 and 1997.
- Refusal of ECT by a patient with recurrent depression, psychosis, and catatonia.
- Fraud and abuse in psychiatric practice.
- The Community Mental Health Centers program: expectations and realities.
- Utilization and cost of mental illness coverage in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, 1973.
- The aftermaths of deinstitutionalization: problmes and solutions.
- Third-party payers: to pay or not to pay.
- Collaborative program evaluation to improve emergency services in community mental health centers.
- Will community mental health survive in the 1980s?
- Community care: costs and benefits for a chronic patient.
- Private psychiatry and accountability: a response to the APA task force report on private practice.
- The politics of program evaluation: the mental health experience.
- Integrating community psychiatry into residency training.
- Basic concepts in mental health evaluation: keeping evaluation questions on a realistic level.
- Insuring intensive psychotherapy.
- Reform issues for insuring mental health care.
- Managed care for patients who are treatment resistant.
- Determining disability due to mental impairment: APA's evaluation of Social Security Administration guidelines.
- A new look at rising mental health insurance costs.
- Prospective cost allocations for the chronic schizophrenic patient.
- Entry-level compensation for psychiatrists.
- Articulating the case of equitable mental health coverage.
- Managed care and the discharge dilemma.
- Managed patient care.
- The Social Security Disability Evaluation Study.
- Utilization management: managed or mangled psychiatric care?
- Financing the medical management of mental disorders.
- The catastrophic case. A special problem for general hospital psychiatry in the era of managed care.
- Diagnosis-related groups and general hospital psychiatry: the APA Study.
- The new economics of psychiatry.
- Reimbursement resistance to treatment and support for the long-term mental patient.
- Privatization: economic opportunity and public health.
- How to survive in the private practice of psychiatry.
- Defining and pricing psychiatric care "products".
- Are specialized psychiatric services worth the higher cost?
- Issues in developing standards governing psychiatric practice in community mental health centers.
- The income of psychiatrists: adaptation during difficult economic times.
- Trends in private insurance coverage for mental illness.
- A proposal for future funding of chronic and episodic mental illness.
- State's role in funding psychiatric care.
- Fraud committed by psychiatrists.
- Problems in analyzing the comparative costs of private versus public psychiatric care.
- Community mental health centers: returning to basics.
- Community mental health centers and the "seed money" concept: effects of terminating federal funds.
- Severity of illness and diagnostic formulation: classifying patients for prospective payment systems.
- Financial incentives for alternatives to hospital care.
- Neighborhood psychiatry: new community approach.
- Model of a program.
- Incorporating community psychiatry in first-year residency training.
- A study in medical action - the student health organizations.
- The journey of Sylvia Frumkin: a case study for policymakers.
- State Medicaid limitations for mental health services.
- The impact of third-party payment cutbacks on the private practice of psychiatry: three surveys.
- Economic grand rounds. The growing crisis in access to mental health services for middle-class families.
- Less is more? Today's economics and its challenge to psychiatry.
- Psychiatric consultations at the NIH.
- Neuropsychiatric aspects of acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
- Mental health care providers: not the only cause or only cure for rising costs.
- The medicalization of society: is there a way to turn back?
- Integrating mental health and general health care.
- Medicaid cutbacks and block grants: crisis or opportunity for community mental health?
- Reductions in insurance for mental disorders: adverse selection, moral hazard, and consumer demand.
- Competition or catastrophe: insurance for psychiatric care.
- Relationship between alternate-day corticosteroid therapy and behavioral abnormalities.
Schools
A Einstein Col Med Yeshiva Univ
Bronx Municipal Hospital Center
Mass Mental Hlth Ctr
Sheppard Pratt Health System President
Doctors Specialties
- Psychiatry
Accepted Insurances
Education
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Jacobi Medical Center -
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
Hospital
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University of Maryland Medical Center -
Sheppard Pratt Health System
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