Jose Escarce • UCLA Profiles

Jose J Escarce

Title(s)	Professor, Medicine
School	Medicine
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Research

Research Activities and Funding

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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Publications

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Changes over time in POLST use and content by race and ethnicity among California nursing home residents. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2023 Apr 24. Zingmond DS, Powell D, Jennings LA, Liang LJ, Escarce JJ, Parikh P, Wenger NS. PMID: 37092747.

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Ger Geriatrics
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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Ger Geriatrics
Translation:Humans
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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Hea Health Services
Translation:Humans
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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Ger Geriatrics
Translation:Humans
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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Int Internal Medicine
Translation:Humans
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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Int Internal Medicine
Translation:Humans
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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Pub Public Health Soc Social Sciences
Translation:Humans
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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Ger Geriatrics Psy Psychology Soc Social Sciences
Translation:Humans
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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Ger Geriatrics
Translation:Humans
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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Epi Epidemiology Pub Public Health
Translation:Humans
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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Hea Health Services Research Pub Public Health
Translation:Humans
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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Hea Health Services
Translation:Humans
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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Epi Epidemiology
Translation:Humans
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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Hea Health Services Soc Social Sciences
Translation:Humans
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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Hea Health Services Research Pub Public Health
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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Med Medicine (General)
Translation:Humans
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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Car Cardiology
Translation:Humans
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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Pub Public Health
Translation:Humans
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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Med Medicine (General)
Translation:Humans
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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Med Medicine (General)
Translation:Humans