Dr. Steinberg is a nationally known expert in evaluation and improvement of the quality and efficiency of health care.  He currently is CEO of xG Health Solutions, a company formed by Geisinger Health System to help other health care delivery systems improve their clinical and financial performance.  From 2011 to 2015, Dr. Steinberg was Executive Vice President of Innovation and Dissemination at Geisinger. Prior to joining Geisinger, Dr. Steinberg, was Sr. VP for Clinical Strategy, Quality & Outcomes at WellPoint, Inc. and President and CEO of Resolution Health Inc. (RHI), a leading health care data analysis company that provides innovative quality improvement and cost reduction services to health plans, employers, PBMs and disease management companies.  Prior to joining RHI, Dr. Steinberg spent six years as Vice President of Covance Health Economics and Outcomes Services Inc., Director of its Quality Assessment and Improvement Systems (QAIS) Division, and Co-Director of its Outcomes Studies Group (OSG), 12 years on the full-time faculty at Johns Hopkins University, where he was Professor of Medicine and of Health Policy and Management and Director of The Johns Hopkins Program for Medical Technology and Practice Assessment, four years on the Federal Physician Payment Review Commission (PPRC) and 20 years as a member of Blue Cross/Blue Shield Association’s National Medical Advisory Panel.  While at Covance, Dr. Steinberg led the teams that developed three HEDIS measures and helped produce a set of measures that are now used to measure quality of care in all dialysis units in the U.S.  While at Johns Hopkins, he was the PI on the federally-funded Patient Outcome Research Team (PORT) devoted to evaluation of variation in management of cataracts and their relationship to patient outcomes. 

             In addition to his role at xG Health, Dr. Steinberg also is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine and of Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins University and a member of the Health Care Management Advisory Board of the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.  He co-chaired the IOM’s panel on Standards for Development of Trustworthy Practice Guidelines. 

             Dr. Steinberg received his A.B. degree from Harvard College (Summa Cum Laude), his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and a Master of Public Policy degree from the Kennedy School of Government.  His residency training in internal medicine was performed at the Mass. General Hospital.Dr. Steinberg has received numerous awards, including the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Faculty Scholar Award in General Internal Medicine (1984), the “Outstanding Young Investigator” Award from the Association for Health Services Research (1988), and a Special Presidential Visionary Award from the National Kidney Foundation (2004) for his work as the scientific director of NKF’s landmark Kidney Disease Outcomes and Quality Initiative, which produced over 250 clinical practice guidelines for management of patients with end stage renal disease.  He also is a Fellow of both the American College of Physicians and AcademyHealth and has published more than 125 articles in peer reviewed journals.