Jose Figueroa

Jose F. Figueroa, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS). He is also a practicing Internist and Associate Physician at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, where he serves as the Faculty Director of the BWH Medicine Residency Management & Leadership Pathway.

Dr. Figueroa received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and his M.P.H. from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital.

His main research interests focus on understanding the drivers of health care spending and poor clinical outcomes among older, vulnerable populations with complex needs. To date, this has included work on racial and ethnic minorities, older adults with frailty, people with disabilities, and people with serious mental illness. His research also focuses on evaluating how policy interventions and payment reform aimed at improving quality of care and controlling costs are working, and in particular, how they affect safety-net providers and hospitals.

To support his work, Dr. Figueroa has previously received the HMS DICP Fellowship, the Harvard Catalyst NIH KL2 Award, the Harvard Global Health Institute Burke Global Health Fellowship, and the BWH Faculty Development Award. He has also received grants from the Commonwealth Fund, the Peterson Center on Healthcare, the Harvard Center for AIDS Research, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Education and Training

MD, Medicine Harvard Medical School, Boston

MPH, Health Policy Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston

Internal Medicine Residency Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston

Publications

Disparities in Surgical Readmissions and Use of Observation Status in Hip and Knee Replacements: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Mehtsun WT, Orav EJ, Phelan J, Lipa SA, Dimick JB, Jha AK, Figueroa JF.

Ann Surg. 2021 Jul 01. 274(1):e90-e91. PMID: 33630446

Value of Discharging Heart Failure Patients Home-Reply. Figueroa JF, Wadhera RK, Joynt Maddox K.

JAMA Cardiol. 2021 Jun 01. 6(6):725-726. PMID: 33759995

Reforms to the Radiation Oncology Model: Prioritizing Health Equity. Erfani P, Figueroa JF, Lam MB.

Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2021 Jun 01. 110(2):328-330. PMID: 33989572

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Heart and Cerebrovascular Disease Deaths During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States. Wadhera RK, Figueroa JF, Rodriguez F, Liu M, Tian W, Kazi DS, Song Y, Yeh RW, Joynt Maddox KE.

Circulation. 2021 06 15. 143(24):2346-2354. PMID: 34000814

Association Between Industry Marketing Payments and Prescriptions for PCSK9 (Proprotein Convertase Subtilisin/Kexin Type 9) Inhibitors in the United States. Inoue K, Figueroa JF, DeJong C, Tsugawa Y, Orav EJ, Shen C, Kazi DS.

Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2021 May. 14(5):e007521. PMID: 33966446

Comparison of General Surgical Practice Size and Setting in 2017 vs 2013 in the US. Tsai TC, Jacobson BH, Benjamin EM, Figueroa JF.

JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Apr 01. 4(4):e216848. PMID: 33909056

Rural-Urban Disparities In All-Cause Mortality Among Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries, 2004-17. Loccoh E, Joynt Maddox KE, Xu J, Shen C, Figueroa JF, Kazi DS, Yeh RW, Wadhera RK.

Health Aff (Millwood). 2021 02. 40(2):289-296. PMID: 33523738

Comparison of deep learning with traditional models to predict preventable acute care use and spending among heart failure patients. Lewis M, Elad G, Beladev M, Maor G, Radinsky K, Hermann D, Litani Y, Geller T, Pines JM, Shapiro NL, Figueroa JF.

Sci Rep. 2021 Jan 13. 11(1):1164. PMID: 33441908

Accountable Care Organizations during Covid-19: Routine care for older adults with multiple chronic conditions. Beckman AL, Mechanic RE, Shah TB, Figueroa JF.

Healthc (Amst). 2021 Mar. 9(1):100511. PMID: 33340801

Quality of Care and Outcomes Among Medicare Advantage vs Fee-for-Service Medicare Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure. Figueroa JF, Wadhera RK, Frakt AB, Fonarow GC, Heidenreich PA, Xu H, Lytle B, DeVore AD, Matsouaka R, Yancy CW, Bhatt DL, Joynt Maddox KE.

JAMA Cardiol. 2020 Dec 01. 5(12):1349-1357. PMID: 32876650