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Table 12.4a

Transplant Recipient Characteristics, 1998 to 2007

Recipients of Deceased Donor Lungs

Primary Payment Source	Year of Transplant
Primary Payment Source	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Total	840	864	941	1,034	1,029	1,070	1,157	1,405	1,401	1,465
Private Insurance	541	530	613	644	679	685	653	872	830	871
Medicaid	65	83	72	79	75	81	118	123	126	110
Medicare	167	184	198	256	231	246	328	350	389	418
Other	47	57	58	54	44	58	58	60	56	55
Unknown	20	10	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	11
Total (%)	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%
Private Insurance	64.4%	61.3%	65.1%	62.3%	66.0%	64.0%	56.4%	62.1%	59.2%	59.5%
Medicaid	7.7%	9.6%	7.7%	7.6%	7.3%	7.6%	10.2%	8.8%	9.0%	7.5%
Medicare	19.9%	21.3%	21.0%	24.8%	22.4%	23.0%	28.3%	24.9%	27.8%	28.5%
Other	5.6%	6.6%	6.2%	5.2%	4.3%	5.4%	5.0%	4.3%	4.0%	3.8%
Unknown	2.4%	1.2%	-	0.1%	-	-	-	-	-	0.8%

Source: OPTN/SRTR Data as of May 1, 2008.

(-) = 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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