Table 12.4b

Transplant Recipient Characteristics, 1996 to 2005

Recipients of Living Donor Lungs

Primary Payment Source Year of Transplant
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
Total 24 21 29 29 18 25 13 15 15 1
Private Insurance 19 14 21 23 13 20 12 13 12 1
Medicare - 1 - - 1 2 - - 1 -
Medicaid 2 4 3 1 - 2 1 2 - -
Other 3 - 1 4 4 1 - - 2 -
Unknown - 2 4 1 - - - - - -
Total (%) 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Private Insurance 79.2% 66.7% 72.4% 79.3% 72.2% 80.0% 92.3% 86.7% 80.0% 100.0%
Medicare - 4.8% - - 5.6% 8.0% - - 6.7% -
Medicaid 8.3% 19.0% 10.3% 3.4% - 8.0% 7.7% 13.3% - -
Other 12.5% - 3.4% 13.8% 22.2% 4.0% - - 13.3% -
Unknown - 9.5% 13.8% 3.4% - - - - - -


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 living donor lung was one of the organs transplanted.