Table 5.4c

Transplant Recipient Characteristics, 1996 to 2005

Recipients of Living Donor Kidneys

Primary Payment Source Year of Transplant
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
Total 3,668 3,927 4,419 4,716 5,488 6,035 6,240 6,470 6,647 6,563
Private Insurance 1,861 2,022 2,502 2,843 3,340 3,490 3,643 3,818 3,847 3,742
Medicare 1,456 1,591 1,540 1,523 1,758 2,039 2,141 2,198 2,335 2,277
Medicaid 214 179 232 217 240 327 296 318 322 321
Other 102 109 106 124 150 179 159 135 142 140
Unknown 35 26 39 9 - - 1 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 50.7% 51.5% 56.6% 60.3% 60.9% 57.8% 58.4% 59.0% 57.9% 57.0%
Medicare 39.7% 40.5% 34.8% 32.3% 32.0% 33.8% 34.3% 34.0% 35.1% 34.7%
Medicaid 5.8% 4.6% 5.3% 4.6% 4.4% 5.4% 4.7% 4.9% 4.8% 4.9%
Other 2.8% 2.8% 2.4% 2.6% 2.7% 3.0% 2.5% 2.1% 2.1% 2.1%
Unknown 1.0% 0.7% 0.9% 0.2% - - 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 1.3%


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

(-) = None in category.

These data include multi-organ transplants, other than kidney-pancreas, in which a living donor kidney was one of the organs transplanted.