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Table 12.4

Transplant Recipient Characteristics, 1999 to 2008

Recipients of Deceased Donor Lungs

Primary Payment Source	Year of Transplant
Primary Payment Source	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Total	864	941	1,034	1,029	1,070	1,157	1,405	1,401	1,465	1,478
Private Insurance	530	613	644	679	687	655	872	830	876	839
Medicaid	83	72	79	75	83	118	123	126	114	112
Medicare	184	198	256	231	241	326	350	389	421	458
Other	57	58	54	44	59	58	60	56	54	68
Unknown	10	-	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	61.3%	65.1%	62.3%	66.0%	64.2%	56.6%	62.1%	59.2%	59.8%	56.8%
Medicaid	9.6%	7.7%	7.6%	7.3%	7.8%	10.2%	8.8%	9.0%	7.8%	7.6%
Medicare	21.3%	21.0%	24.8%	22.4%	22.5%	28.2%	24.9%	27.8%	28.7%	31.0%
Other	6.6%	6.2%	5.2%	4.3%	5.5%	5.0%	4.3%	4.0%	3.7%	4.6%
Unknown	1.2%	-	0.1%	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.1%

Source: OPTN/SRTR Data as of May 4, 2009.

(-) = None in category.

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

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