Table 5.4c

Transplant Recipient Characteristics, 1995 to 2004

Recipients of Living Donor Kidneys

Primary Payment Source Year of Transplant
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
Total 3,386 3,669 3,927 4,419 4,716 5,487 6,035 6,240 6,468 6,646
Private Insurance 1,611 1,861 2,022 2,502 2,842 3,340 3,488 3,642 3,817 3,805
Medicare 1,476 1,456 1,592 1,541 1,524 1,757 2,044 2,142 2,197 2,299
Medicaid 169 214 179 231 217 238 324 296 318 318
Other 86 102 109 106 124 150 179 159 135 141
Unknown 44 36 25 39 9 2 - 1 1 83
Total (%) 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Private Insurance 47.6% 50.7% 51.5% 56.6% 60.3% 60.9% 57.8% 58.4% 59.0% 57.3%
Medicare 43.6% 39.7% 40.5% 34.9% 32.3% 32.0% 33.9% 34.3% 34.0% 34.6%
Medicaid 5.0% 5.8% 4.6% 5.2% 4.6% 4.3% 5.4% 4.7% 4.9% 4.8%
Other 2.5% 2.8% 2.8% 2.4% 2.6% 2.7% 3.0% 2.5% 2.1% 2.1%
Unknown 1.3% 1.0% 0.6% 0.9% 0.2% 0.0% - 0.0% 0.0% 1.2%


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 living donor kidney was one ofthe organs transplanted.