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Francisco Cigarroa, MD

UT Health San Antonio
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Specialties
Pediatric Surgery
Transplant Surgery
Board Affiliation/Certification
American Board of Surgery
American Board of Surgery/Pediatric Surgery
Education
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, 1983
Residency
Massachusetts General Hospital, 1986
Massachusetts General Hospital, 1990
Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1993
Fellowships
Massachusetts General Hospital, 1988
Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1995
Languages
English
Spanish
Gender
Male

Texas Liver Tumor Center

4502 Medical Drive
Transplant Clinic, Rio Tower, Level 2
San Antonio,TX 78229
210-743-4306
Location Details

University Hospital

4502 Medical Drive
San Antonio,TX 78229
210-358-4000
Location Details
Insurance Accepted
6 Degrees - Transplant
90 Degree Benefits - Third Party Administrator
Administrative Concepts - Third Party Administrator
Aetna (Coventry) - Work Comp/Auto
Aetna Better Health - CHIP/CHIP Perinate Newborn
Aetna Better Health - Medicaid STAR
Aetna Health - Commercial (Choice POS II, Elect Choice EPO, Exchange (Silver/Gold HMO))
Aetna Health - Commercial (HMO, Managed Choice POS, Meritain, Open Choice PPO)
Aetna Health - Commercial (QPOS, SAISD, Select)
Aetna Health - Medicaid Dual Preferred (HMO D-SNP)
Aetna Health - Medicare Advantage (Eagle PPO, Freedom PPO, Premier HMO, Prime HMO, Value Plus PPO)
Aetna Health - Transplant ONLY
Allegiance - Universal Benefits Consortium
Allied Benefit Systems - Third Party Administrator
Allwell (Superior HealthPlan) - Medicare Advantage
Ancira Enterprises - Direct Employer
Benefit Administrative Systems - Third Party Administrator
BlueCross BlueShield (Federal Programs) - Commercial (Federal - All Products)
BlueCross BlueShield (Out-of-State) - Commercial (Out of State - Blue Card Program Only)
BlueCross BlueShield of Texas - Commercial (Blue Premier HMO, Blue Choice PPO)
BlueCross BlueShield of Texas - Commercial (CHIP, Blue Advantagage HMO, Blue Essentials HMO)
BlueCross BlueShield of Texas - Commercial (ERS, TRS, State of TX Employees)
BlueCross BlueShield of Texas - HPN/EPO (Narrow Network)
BlueCross BlueShield of Texas - Medicaid (STAR, STAR Kids, STAR PLUS)
BlueCross BlueShield of Texas - Medicare Advantage (HMO, PPO)
BlueCross BlueShield of Texas - Medicare-Medicaid Dual Eligible Plans
BlueCross BlueShield of Texas - Traditional/Par Network
BlueCross BlueShield of Texas - Transplant Network
Care Improvement Plus - Medicare Advantage (Special Needs Plan)
Century Healthcare - Third Party Administrator
CHAMPVA - Governmental
Cigna - Employer Specific Network (United Benefits Consortium)
Cigna - Employer Specific Network (USAA Employees & Dependents Only)
Cigna Health Spring - Medicare Advantage (WellMed)
Community First Health Plans - CHIP/CHIP Perinate Newborn
Community First Health Plans - Commercial (HMO, Exchange)
Community First Health Plans - Medicaid (STAR, STAR Kids, STAR PLUS)
Community First Health Plans - Medicare Advantage (HMO)
Community First Health Plans - University Family Care Plan
Curative - Commercial (All Products)
Driscoll Health Plan - Medicaid (All products)
EBSO Benefits - Third Party Administrator
El Paso Health - CHIP
El Paso Health - Medicaid STAR
Employers Health Network - Commerical (PPO)
Entrust - Third Party Administrator
First Health - Commercial (All Products)
FirstCare (Part of Baylor Scott & White) - Medicaid-STAR
Galaxy Health Network - Commercial (All products)
Gilsbar - Third Party Administrator
Group and Pension Administrators - Third Party Administrator
HealthSmart (Accel) - Commercial (All products)
HMA LLC - Third Party Administrator
Humana - Medicare Advantage (HMO, PPO, WellMed)
Humana - Transplant Network
Humana Military - TRICARE East Region
Imagine 360 - Third Party Administrator
Imperial Health - Commercial (Exchange)
Imperial Health Plan - Medicare Advantage
Independent Medical Systems - Commercial (PPO)
Independent Medical Systems - Workers Compensation
Injury Management Organization - Workers Compensation
Interlink - Transplant Network
International Benefits Administrators - Third Party Administrator
Kempton Group Administrators - Third Party Administrator
Key Benefits Administrators - Third Party Administrator
LifeTrac - Transplant Network
Lucent Health - Third Party Administrator
Medicaid (Traditional) - Medicaid/Medicare
Molina Healthcare - CHIP/CHIP Perinate
Molina Healthcare - Commercial (Exchange)
Molina Healthcare - Medicaid (STAR, STAR Kids, STAR PLUS)
Molina Healthcare - Medicare Advantage
Molina Healthcare - Medicare-Medicaid Dual Eligible Plans
MultiPlan - Commercial (All products)
OptumHealth - Transplant Network
Oscar - Commercial Exchange
Point Comfort Underwriters - Refugee Medical Assistance (Adults, Children)
Prime Health Services - Commercial (PPO)
Prime Health Services - Medicare Advantage (All Products)
Prime Health Services - Workers Compensation
Private Healthcare Systems - Commercial (All Products)
ProCare Advantage - Medicare Advantage (Special Needs Plan)
Provider Network of America - Commercial (All Products)
Provider Partners Health Plan - Medicare Advantage (Special Needs Plan)
SANA Benefits - Commercial (All Products)
Scott & White Health Plan - Commercial (Exchange, HMO, PPO)
Scott & White Health Plan - Medicaid/Medicare Advantage (All Products)
Superior HealthPlan - CHIP/CHIP Perinate
Superior HealthPlan - Medicaid (STAR, STAR Health Foster Care, STAR Kids, STAR PLUS)
Superior HealthPlan - Medicare-Medicaid Dual Eligible Plans
Surest (United Healthcare) - Commercial (All Products)
Texas Independence Health Plan - Medicare Advantage (Special Needs Plan)
Three Rivers Provider Network (Contigo) - Commercial (PPO)
Tokio Marine - Transplant Network
TriWest - TRICARE West Region
TriWest - VA Community Care Network
Trustmark Benefits (f/k/a CoreSource) - Third Party Administrator
UnitedHealthcare - Commercial (Charter EPO/HMO/POS)
UnitedHealthcare - Commercial (Choice Plus POS/PPO/Choice Plus-HAS)
UnitedHealthcare - Commercial (Compass EPO/HMO/POS)
UnitedHealthcare - Commercial (Core and Core Choice Plus EPO/HMO)
UnitedHealthcare - Commercial (Doctors Plan EPO/HMO/POS)
UnitedHealthcare - Commercial (Heritage EPO/HMO/POS)
UnitedHealthcare - Commercial (Indemnity)
UnitedHealthcare - Commercial (Navigate EPO/HMO/POS)
UnitedHealthcare - Commercial (Nexus ACO/EPO/HMO/POS)
UnitedHealthcare - Commercial (PPO)
UnitedHealthcare - Commercial (Select EPO/HMO/POS)
UnitedHealthcare - Commercial (Select Plus EPO/HMO/POS)
UnitedHealthcare - Medicare Advantage (AARP Plans, Complete Care Plans, Erickson Advantage Plans)
UnitedHealthcare - Medicare Advantage (UnitedHealthcare Group Plans, WellMed)
UnitedHealthcare Community Plan - CHIP/CHIP Perinate
UnitedHealthcare Community Plan - Medicaid (STAR, STAR Kids, STAR PLUS)
UnitedHealthcare Community Plan - Medicare-Medicaid Dual Eligible Plans
Universal Benefits Consortium (Allegiance) - Direct Contract with TPA/Broker for select ISDs
University of Incarnate Word - Direct Contact with Employer
Velocity National Provider Network - Commercial (Multiple Payers)
Velocity National Provider Network - Commercial (PPO)
Veterans Administration - Governmental
WebTPA - Third Party Administrator
WellCare - Medicare Advantage
WellMed (Gonzaba Medical Group IPA) - Medicare Advantage (Transplant Only)
WellMed - Medicare Advantage (Cigna HealthSpring, Humana, United Healthcare, WellPoint)
WellPoint (Gonzaba) - Medicare Advantage (TRANSPLANTS ONLY)
WellPoint - CHIP/CHIP Perinate
WellPoint - Commercial (Exchange)
WellPoint - Medicaid (STAR, STAR Kids, STAR PLUS)
WellPoint - Medicare Advantage (All Products)
WellPoint - Medicare Advantage (Transplant Only)
WellPoint - Medicare Advantage (WellMed)
WellPoint - Medicare-Medicaid Dual Eligible Plans
Zelis - Third Party Administrator
Please contact your health insurance company to confirm provider participation. For billing and insurance questions, please call our Billing Department at 210-358-3260.
I am a nationally renowned transplant surgeon. I received my bachelor’s degree in biology from Yale University and my medical degree from The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. I completed fellowships in pediatric surgery and transplant surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. I have been a UT Health faculty member since 1995 and was part of the surgical team that performed the first split liver donor transplant between two recipients in Texas.
In 2003, President George W. Bush appointed me to serve on the President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science. In 2009, I became the first Hispanic to be named Chancellor of The University of Texas System. After five years as chancellor, I returned full-time to my passion for transplant and hepatobiliary surgery. I am fluent in Spanish and English. I have also contributed to many notable publications in my field.

Abstracts

  1. Washburn WK, Speeg KV, Guerrero JA, Havranek R, Esterl RM, Abrahamian GA, Cigarroa FG, Halff GA. MELD: Impact of Hepatocellular Carcinoma on the Adult Liver Transplant Waiting List 2003. p. 374A. (Hepatology; vol. 38).
  2. Pollack MS, Havranek, R, Halff GA, Esterl RM, Washburn WK, Cigarroa FG, Speeg KV. Liver Transplant Recipients with Positive T-cell Cross-matches Have Excess Mortality. 2000 Oct. p. s91-s91. (Human Immunology; vol. 61, no. Sup 2).
  3. Elshihabi I, Agustin J, Cigarroa FG, Arar MY. Combined liver-kidney transplantation in a child with primary hyperoxaluria type I. 1998. p. 67. (Pediatr Transplantation; vol. 2, no. sup 1).

Book Chapters

  1. Neigut D, Cigarroa FG. Biliary atresia. In Mattei P (editor): Surgical Directives: Pediatric Surgery. In: Biliary atresia. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2003. p. Sect X.
  2. Raheb J, Esterl RM, Washburn WK, Cigarroa FG, Halff GA. A Revisited Technique to Salvage Failed End to Side Radiocephalic Fistulae for Chronic Hemodialysis. In: Henry ML, Ed. Vascular Access for Hemodialysis VII. WL Gore and Access Medical Group, Ltd.; 2001. p. 01 - 02.
  3. Raheb J, Esterl RM, Washburn WK, Cigarroa FG, Halff GA. Ischemic Monomelic Neuropathy as a Complication of Forearm PTFE Loop Grafts in Uremic Diabetic Patients. In: Henry ML, Ed. Vascular Access for Hemodialysis VII. WL Gore and Access Medical Group, Ltd.; 2001. p. 001 - 002.
  4. Cigarroa FG. Liver Transplantation in the Management of Patients with Biliary Diseases In: In: La Benge JM(Editor in Chief). The Radiological Society of North America. 1995. p. 118 - 128.
  5. Cigarroa FG. The Harriet Lane Handbook In: In Johnson KB. The Harriet Lane Handbook. 1993. p. 3 - 11.
  6. Cigarroa FG Donahoe PK. Laryngotracheoesophageal Clefts In: Grans SL (Editor) WB Saunders Company. Tracheal Reconstruction in Infancy. 1991. p. 65 - 78.
  7. Cigarroa FG Fritze, Danielle. Cholesdistal Cysts: Hepatic-Pancreatico-Biliary and Transplant Surgery In: In Press. Practical assignments of Dilemmas.

Editorials

  1. Cigarroa FG, Jay CL. Disparities in living Donor Kidney Transplantation: Related to Poverty, Race, or Ethnicity? Journal of the American Medical Association 2018 Jan;319(1):24-26.
  2. Cigarroa FG. Journal of the American Medical Association Journal of the American Medical Association..

Journal Articles

  1. Cigarroa FG. The Beauty of Medicine in UT Health Science Center Ethics Connective Tissue 2013;Vol V(1-6).
  2. Cigarroa FG. The University of Texas System: Leadership for Reform and Rejuvenation of Texas Health Care in Texas Heart Institute Journal 2010;37(6).
  3. Cigarroa F. The UT System: Leadership for reform and rejuvenation of Texas Health Care Texas Heart Institute Journal 2010;37(6):665-666.
  4. Ramirez, AG; Vela, L; Cigarroa, FG. A Model for Health Professional Education in South Texas Journal of Hispanic Higher Education 2008 Apr;Vol 7(2):183-194.
  5. Cigarroa FG. Responding to a Culture-Based Health Need Journal of the American College of Dentists 2008;75(4):8-10.
  6. Cigarroa FG. Liver Transplantation at The University of Texas Health Science Center/University Hospital in San Antonio Clinical Transplants 2004:247-253.
  7. Washburn WK, Dodd GD III, Kohlmeier RE, McCoy VA, Napier DH, Hubbard LG, Halff GA, Esterl RM, Cigarroa FG, Sharkey FE. Radiofrequency tissue ablation: effect of hepatic blood flow occlusion on thermal injuries produced in cirrhotic livers. Ann Surg Oncol 2003 Aug;10(7):773-777.
  8. Cigarroa FG. Radiofrequency tissue ablation: effect of hepatic blood flow occlusion on thermal injuries produced in cirrhotic livers. Ann Surg Oncol 2003 Aug;10(7):773-777.
  9. Fisch SI, Vela L, Wartman SA, Cigarroa FG. Community-based medical education: two campuses, one faculty, one school. Tex Med 2002 Aug;98(8):52-54.
  10. Mejia A, Halff GA, Esterl R, Cigarroa F, Speeg KV, Villarreal R, Washburn K. Outcome of Liver Transplantation in Hispanics versus Non-Hispanics: Is There a Difference? Transplant Proc 2002 Jun;34(4):1236-1238.
  11. Cigarroa FG. Sonographically Observed Echogenic Response during Intraoperative Radiofrequency Ablation of Cirrhotic Livers: Pathologic Correlation American Journal of Radiology 2002 May;178(5):1147-1151.
  12. Leyendecker JR, Dodd GD, Halff GA, McCoy VA, Napier DH, Hubbard LG, Chintapalli KN, Chopra S, Washburn WK, Esterl RM, Cigarroa FG, Kohlmeier RE, Sharkey FE. Sonographically observed echogenic response during intraoperative radiofrequency ablation of cirrhotic livers: pathologic correlation. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2002 May;178(5):1147-1151.
  13. Bingener-Casey J, Esterl RM, Kenneth Washburn W, Cigarroa FG, Abrahamian GA, Halff GA. Tc-99m-labeled Red Blood Cell Scanning Localizes Anastomotic Hemorrhage Between the Distal Ileum and Duodenal Stump of an Enteric-drained Pancreas Transplant. Clin Nucl Med 2002 Mar;27(3):205-206.
  14. Cigarroa FG. Outcome of Liver Transplantation in Hispanics Versus Non-Hispanics: Is there a Difference? Transplantation Proceedings 2001 Feb;34:1236-1238.
  15. Lange RA, Hillis LD, Cigarroa FG, Rapp AH, Keeley EC. Prevalence of coronary artery disease in patients with aortic stenosis with and without angina pectoris. Am J Cardiol 2001;88:1212-1213.
  16. Cigarroa FG. Steroid elimination 24 hours after Liver Transplantation using daclizumab, tacrolimus, and mycophenolate mofetil Transplantation 2001 Nov;72(10):1675-1679.
  17. Washburn K, Speeg KV, Esterl R, Cigarroa F, Pollack M, Tourtellot C, Maxwell P, Halff G. Steroid Elimination 24 hours After Liver Transplantation Using Daclizumab, Tacrolimus, and Mycophenolate Mofetil. Transplantation 2001 Nov;72(10):1675-1679.
  18. Schwesinger WH, Richards ML, Cigarroa FG, Heim-Hall J. Difficulty swallowing in a young child. Grand Rounds Current Surgery 2000;57(5):446-449.
  19. Cai TH, Esterl RM, Nichols L, Cigarroa F, Speeg KV, Halff GA. Improved Immunosuppression with Combination Tacrolimus (FK506) and Mycophenolic Acid in Orthotopic Liver Transplantation. Transplant Proc 1998 Jun;30(4):1413-1416.
  20. Ratner LE, Cigarroa FG, Bender JS, Magnuson T, Kraus ES. Transplantation of single and paired pediatric kidneys into adult recipients. J Am Coll Surg 1997 Nov;185(5):437-445.
  21. Colombani PM, Cigarroa FG, Schwarz K, Wise B, Maley WE, Klein AS. Liver transplantation in infants younger than 1 year of age. Ann Surg 1996 Jun;223(6):658-662.
  22. Ratner LE, Ciseck LJ, Moore RG, Cigarroa FG, Kaufman HS, Kavoussi LR. Laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy. Transplantation 1995 Nov;60(9):1047-1049.
  23. Eckhardt WF, Patafio O, Cigarroa FG. A retained esophageal stethoscope as a potential cause of small bowel obstruction. Anesth Analg 1992 Feb;74(2):300-302.
  24. Lange RA, Cigarroa FG, Hillis LD, Wells PJ, Kremers MS. Influence of antegrade flow in the infarct artery on the incidence of late potentials in acute myocardial infarction Am J Cardiol 1990;65:554-558.
  25. Cigarroa FG, Coughlin JP, Donahoe PK, White MF, Uitvlugt N, MacLaughlin DT. Recombinant human müllerian inhibiting substance inhibits epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase. Growth Factors 1989;1(2):179-191.
  26. Cigarroa FG, Kim SH, Donahoe PK. Imperforate anus with long but apparent low fistula in females. J Pediatr Surg 1988 Jan;23(1 Pt):42-44.
  27. Cigarroa FG. Leading an Academic Health Center in the 21st Century: A Pediatric Surgeon's Perspective Journal of Pediatric Surgery.
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