Table 11.4

Transplant Recipient Characteristics, 1996 to 2005

Heart Recipients

Primary Payment Source Year of Transplant
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
Total 2,343 2,293 2,348 2,188 2,199 2,202 2,155 2,057 2,016 2,126
Private Insurance 1,360 1,388 1,382 1,336 1,328 1,315 1,267 1,184 1,101 1,159
Medicare 476 470 509 439 456 450 482 438 456 467
Medicaid 281 256 257 267 283 297 313 330 376 332
Other 128 105 126 118 132 140 93 105 83 126
Unknown 98 74 74 28 - - - - - 42
Total (%) 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Private Insurance 58.0% 60.5% 58.9% 61.1% 60.4% 59.7% 58.8% 57.6% 54.6% 54.5%
Medicare 20.3% 20.5% 21.7% 20.1% 20.7% 20.4% 22.4% 21.3% 22.6% 22.0%
Medicaid 12.0% 11.2% 10.9% 12.2% 12.9% 13.5% 14.5% 16.0% 18.7% 15.6%
Other 5.5% 4.6% 5.4% 5.4% 6.0% 6.4% 4.3% 5.1% 4.1% 5.9%
Unknown 4.2% 3.2% 3.2% 1.3% - - - - - 2.0%


Source: OPTN/SRTR Data as of May 1, 2006.

(-) = None in category.

These data include multi-organ transplants, other than heart-lung, in which a deceased donor heart was one of the organs transplanted.