Table 6.4

Transplant Recipient Characteristics, 1995 to 2004

Pancreas Transplant Alone (PTA) Recipients

Primary Payment Source Year of Transplant
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
Total 42 52 79 88 137 135 165 177 159 185
Private Insurance 29 37 56 65 101 104 111 123 107 121
Medicare 2 6 6 4 20 16 22 17 13 27
Medicaid 4 4 10 14 6 9 20 18 11 20
Other 6 3 7 4 7 5 6 6 5 8
Unknown 1 2 - 1 3 1 6 13 23 9
Total (%) 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Private Insurance 69.0% 71.2% 70.9% 73.9% 73.7% 77.0% 67.3% 69.5% 67.3% 65.4%
Medicare 4.8% 11.5% 7.6% 4.5% 14.6% 11.9% 13.3% 9.6% 8.2% 14.6%
Medicaid 9.5% 7.7% 12.7% 15.9% 4.4% 6.7% 12.1% 10.2% 6.9% 10.8%
Other 14.3% 5.8% 8.9% 4.5% 5.1% 3.7% 3.6% 3.4% 3.1% 4.3%
Unknown 2.4% 3.8% - 1.1% 2.2% 0.7% 3.6% 7.3% 14.5% 4.9%


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 pancreas transplant alone (pta) was one ofthe organs transplanted.