Table 9.4b

Transplant Recipient Characteristics, 1996 to 2005

Recipients of Living Donor Livers

Primary Payment Source Year of Transplant
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
Total 62 86 92 253 400 519 362 321 322 321
Private Insurance 37 62 57 174 297 383 279 236 239 237
Medicare - - 4 15 34 48 28 23 34 31
Medicaid 19 18 23 41 43 56 41 44 37 36
Other 6 5 8 23 26 31 14 18 12 16
Unknown - 1 - - - 1 - - - 1
Total (%) 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Private Insurance 59.7% 72.1% 62.0% 68.8% 74.3% 73.8% 77.1% 73.5% 74.2% 73.8%
Medicare - - 4.3% 5.9% 8.5% 9.2% 7.7% 7.2% 10.6% 9.7%
Medicaid 30.6% 20.9% 25.0% 16.2% 10.8% 10.8% 11.3% 13.7% 11.5% 11.2%
Other 9.7% 5.8% 8.7% 9.1% 6.5% 6.0% 3.9% 5.6% 3.7% 5.0%
Unknown - 1.2% - - - 0.2% - - - 0.3%


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

(-) = None in category.

These data include multi-organ transplants in which a living donor liver was one of the organs transplanted.