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Table 11.4

Transplant Recipient Characteristics, 1999 to 2008

Heart Recipients

Primary Payment Source	Year of Transplant
Primary Payment Source	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Total	2,188	2,199	2,202	2,155	2,057	2,015	2,125	2,193	2,209	2,163
Private Insurance	1,337	1,328	1,315	1,267	1,184	1,100	1,182	1,218	1,188	1,131
Medicaid	267	283	298	315	331	376	339	339	383	380
Medicare	439	456	449	480	437	457	476	532	514	544
Other	118	132	140	93	105	82	128	104	124	106
Unknown	27	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
Total (%)	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%
Private Insurance	61.1%	60.4%	59.7%	58.8%	57.6%	54.6%	55.6%	55.5%	53.8%	52.3%
Medicaid	12.2%	12.9%	13.5%	14.6%	16.1%	18.7%	16.0%	15.5%	17.3%	17.6%
Medicare	20.1%	20.7%	20.4%	22.3%	21.2%	22.7%	22.4%	24.3%	23.3%	25.2%
Other	5.4%	6.0%	6.4%	4.3%	5.1%	4.1%	6.0%	4.7%	5.6%	4.9%
Unknown	1.2%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	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 heart was one of the organs transplanted.

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