Table 5.4a

Transplant Recipient Characteristics, 1995 to 2004

Recipients of Deceased Donor non-ECD Kidneys

Primary Payment Source Year of Transplant
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
Total 6,679 6,640 6,630 6,802 6,805 6,940 7,036 7,282 7,270 7,915
Private Insurance 1,734 1,747 1,822 2,207 2,282 2,397 2,256 2,365 2,283 2,389
Medicare 4,198 4,177 4,267 4,060 3,969 4,018 4,219 4,339 4,404 4,885
Medicaid 357 402 370 366 400 391 422 443 436 447
Other 199 188 147 136 143 133 138 135 147 135
Unknown 191 126 24 33 11 1 1 - - 59
Total (%) 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Private Insurance 26.0% 26.3% 27.5% 32.4% 33.5% 34.5% 32.1% 32.5% 31.4% 30.2%
Medicare 62.9% 62.9% 64.4% 59.7% 58.3% 57.9% 60.0% 59.6% 60.6% 61.7%
Medicaid 5.3% 6.1% 5.6% 5.4% 5.9% 5.6% 6.0% 6.1% 6.0% 5.6%
Other 3.0% 2.8% 2.2% 2.0% 2.1% 1.9% 2.0% 1.9% 2.0% 1.7%
Unknown 2.9% 1.9% 0.4% 0.5% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% - - 0.7%


Source: OPTN/SRTR Data as of May 2, 2005.

(-) = None in category.

These data include multi-organ transplants, other than kidney-pancreas, in which a deceased donor non-ECD kidney was one ofthe organs transplanted.