Jose J Escarce

Title(s)Professor, Medicine
SchoolMedicine
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    The Medicaid expansion in the age of COVID-19: Effects on coverage, access, use, financial stress, and health.
    NIH R01HS027970Sep 30, 2021 - Aug 31, 2025
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Health Insurance Expansion and Physician Distribution
    NIH R01HS025750Sep 30, 2017 - Jul 31, 2021
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator
    Racial and SES disparities in Outcomes of Medicare's Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program
    NIH R01HS025394Aug 1, 2017 - Jul 31, 2020
    Role: Principal Investigator
    UNDERSTANDING NEIGHBORHOOD IMPACTS OF HEALTH
    NIH P50ES012383Sep 18, 2003 - May 31, 2010
    Role: Principal Investigator
    HEALTH CARE MARKETS AND VULNERABLE POPULATIONS
    NIH P01HS010770Jul 1, 2000 - Dec 31, 2006
    Role: Principal Investigator
    SES DIFFERENCES IN HMO UTILIZATION BY OLDER AMERICANS
    NIH R01HS009630Apr 1, 1999 - Mar 31, 2003
    Role: Principal Investigator
    QUALITY OF CHRONIC EYE CARE UNDER MANAGED CARE
    NIH U01HS009942Jul 1, 1998 - Jun 30, 2003
    Role: Principal Investigator
    SPECIALTY CARE IN CLOSED VS OPEN ACCESS HMOS
    NIH R01HS009414Sep 30, 1996 - Sep 29, 2000
    Role: Principal Investigator
    SUPERSPECIALIZATION OF MEDICAL &SURGICAL SUBSPECIALISTS
    NIH R01HS008573Jun 1, 1996 - May 31, 1998
    Role: Principal Investigator
    EFFICIENCY IN HOSPITALS: DO HMOS AND PPOS 'BUY RIGHT?'
    NIH R01HS009194Sep 30, 1995 - Sep 30, 1998
    Role: Principal Investigator

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    1. Artificial Nutrition Preferences Among California Nursing Home Residents. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2025 May 19. Jennings LA, Liang LJ, Wenger NS, Powell D, Parikh P, Escarce JJ, Zingmond D. PMID: 40384589.
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    2. Enabling technologies for in situ biomanufacturing using probiotic yeast. Adv Drug Deliv Rev. 2025 May 16; 223:115605. Parker W, Taylor A, Razdan A, Escarce J, Crook N. PMID: 40383233.
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    3. Referral Networks, Racial Inequity, and Hospital Quality for Open Heart Surgery. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2025 Jan; 18(1):e010778. Gibson CB, Damberg CL, Escarce JJ, Zhang S, Schuler MS, Matthews LJ, Popescu I. PMID: 39727033; PMCID: PMC11745697.
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    4. Within-Physician Differences in Patient Sharing Between Primary Care Physicians and Cardiologists Who Treat White and Black Patients With Heart Disease. J Am Heart Assoc. 2023 11 21; 12(22):e030653. Matthews LJ, Damberg CL, Zhang S, Escarce JJ, Gibson CB, Schuler M, Popescu I. PMID: 37982233; PMCID: PMC10727292.
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    5. Relationship of POLST to Hospitalization and ICU Care Among Nursing Home Residents in California. J Gen Intern Med. 2023 Dec; 38(16):3535-3540. Zingmond D, Powell D, Jennings LA, Escarce JJ, Liang LJ, Parikh P, Wenger NS. PMID: 37620715; PMCID: PMC10713885.
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    6. Changes over time in POLST use and content by race and ethnicity among California nursing home residents. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2023 09; 71(9):2779-2787. Zingmond DS, Powell D, Jennings LA, Liang LJ, Escarce JJ, Parikh P, Wenger NS. PMID: 37092747; PMCID: PMC10524124.
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    7. Care preferences in physician orders for life sustaining treatment in California nursing homes. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2022 07; 70(7):2040-2050. Jennings LA, Wenger NS, Liang LJ, Parikh P, Powell D, Escarce JJ, Zingmond D. PMID: 35275398; PMCID: PMC9283229.
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    8. Did the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program Reduce Readmissions without Hurting Patient Outcomes at High Dual-Proportion Hospitals Prior to Stratification? Inquiry. 2022 Jan-Dec; 59:469580211064836. Yang Z, Huckfeldt P, Escarce JJ, Sood N, Nuckols T, Popescu I. PMID: 35317683; PMCID: PMC8949751.
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    9. POLST completion and continuity in California nursing homes. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2022 07; 70(7):2148-2150. Zingmond DS, Powell D, Jennings LA, Escarce JJ, Liang LJ, Parikh P, Wenger NS. PMID: 34927721; PMCID: PMC9207153.
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    10. Trends in Racial/Ethnic and Nativity Disparities in Cardiovascular Health Among Adults Without Prevalent Cardiovascular Disease in the United States, 1988 to 2014. Ann Intern Med. 2018 04 17; 168(8):541-549. Brown AF, Liang LJ, Vassar SD, Escarce JJ, Merkin SS, Cheng E, Richards A, Seeman T, Longstreth WT. PMID: 29554692; PMCID: PMC6499476.
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    11. Effectiveness of Remote Patient Monitoring After Discharge of Hospitalized Patients With Heart Failure: The Better Effectiveness After Transition -- Heart Failure (BEAT-HF) Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Intern Med. 2016 Mar; 176(3):310-8. Ong MK, Romano PS, Edgington S, Aronow HU, Auerbach AD, Black JT, De Marco T, Escarce JJ, Evangelista LS, Hanna B, Ganiats TG, Greenberg BH, Greenfield S, Kaplan SH, Kimchi A, Liu H, Lombardo D, Mangione CM, Sadeghi B, Sadeghi B, Sarrafzadeh M, Tong K, Fonarow GC, Better Effectiveness After Transition–Heart Failure (BEAT-HF) Research Group. PMID: 26857383; PMCID: PMC4827701.
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    12. Neighborhood Characteristics are Associated with Racial and Gender Variation in Walking among Older Adults: the Cardiovascular Health Study. Ethn Dis. 2016 Jan 21; 26(1):17-26. Yan T, Liang LJ, Vassar S, Katz MC, Escarce JJ, Longstreth WT, Merkin SS, Brown AF. PMID: 26843792; PMCID: PMC4738851.
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    13. Functioning, Forgetting, or Failing Health: Which Factors Are Associated With a Community-Based Move Among Older Adults? J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2016 11; 71(6):1120-1130. Friedman EM, Weden MM, Shih RA, Kovalchik S, Singh R, Escarce J. PMID: 26450960; PMCID: PMC5067947.
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    14. Health status and behavioral risk factors in older adult Mexicans and Mexican immigrants to the United States. J Aging Health. 2013 Feb; 25(1):136-58. Aguila E, Escarce J, Leng M, Morales L. PMID: 23264441; PMCID: PMC3663916.
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    15. The relationship between urban sprawl and coronary heart disease in women. Health Place. 2013 Mar; 20:51-61. Griffin BA, Eibner C, Bird CE, Jewell A, Margolis K, Shih R, Ellen Slaughter M, Whitsel EA, Allison M, Escarce JJ. PMID: 23376728; PMCID: PMC3594054.
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    16. Collection of race and ethnicity data by health plans has grown substantially, but opportunities remain to expand efforts. Health Aff (Millwood). 2011 Oct; 30(10):1984-91. Escarce JJ, Carreón R, Veselovskiy G, Lawson EH. PMID: 21976343.
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    17. Do patients bypass rural hospitals? Determinants of inpatient hospital choice in rural California. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2009 Aug; 20(3):625-44. Escarce JJ, Kapur K. PMID: 19648694.
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    18. Neighborhoods and cumulative biological risk profiles by race/ethnicity in a national sample of U.S. adults: NHANES III. Ann Epidemiol. 2009 Mar; 19(3):194-201. Merkin SS, Basurto-Dávila R, Karlamangla A, Bird CE, Lurie N, Escarce J, Seeman T. PMID: 19217002; PMCID: PMC3428227.
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    19. Does place explain racial health disparities? Quantifying the contribution of residential context to the Black/white health gap in the United States. Soc Sci Med. 2008 Oct; 67(8):1258-68. Do DP, Finch BK, Basurto-Davila R, Bird C, Escarce J, Lurie N. PMID: 18649984; PMCID: PMC2614884.
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    20. Racial and ethnic disparities in access to and quality of health care. Synth Proj Res Synth Rep. 2007 Sep; (12). Escarce JJ, Goodell S. PMID: 22051771.
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    21. Use of physicians' services for Medicare beneficiaries. N Engl J Med. 2007 Aug 09; 357(6):618; author reply 618-9. Buntin MB, Escarce JJ, Goldman D. PMID: 17691130.
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    22. Changes in hospitalization patterns among patients with congenital heart disease during the transition from adolescence to adulthood. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2007 Feb 27; 49(8):875-82. Gurvitz MZ, Inkelas M, Lee M, Stout K, Escarce J, Chang RK. PMID: 17320746.
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    23. Demographic and socioeconomic factors associated with blood lead levels among Mexican-American children and adolescents in the United States. Public Health Rep. 2005 Jul-Aug; 120(4):448-54. Moralez LS, Gutierrez P, Escarce JJ. PMID: 16025725; PMCID: PMC1497748.
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    24. Pharmacy benefits and the use of drugs by the chronically ill. JAMA. 2004 May 19; 291(19):2344-50. Goldman DP, Joyce GF, Escarce JJ, Pace JE, Solomon MD, Laouri M, Landsman PB, Teutsch SM. PMID: 15150206.
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    25. Incremental treatment costs in national cancer institute-sponsored clinical trials. JAMA. 2003 Jun 11; 289(22):2970-7. Goldman DP, Berry SH, McCabe MS, Kilgore ML, Potosky AL, Schoenbaum ML, Schonlau M, Weeks JC, Kaplan R, Escarce JJ. PMID: 12799405.
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