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Table 12.4b

Transplant Recipient Characteristics, 1998 to 2007

Recipients of Living Donor Lungs

Primary Payment Source Year of Transplant
1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Total 29 29 18 25 13 15 15 1 4 3
Private Insurance 22 23 13 20 12 13 12 1 2 2
Medicaid 4 1 - 2 1 2 - - 1 1
Medicare - - 1 2 - - 1 - 1 -
Other 1 4 4 1 - - 2 - - -
Unknown 2 1 - - - - - - - -
Total (%) 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Private Insurance 75.9% 79.3% 72.2% 80.0% 92.3% 86.7% 80.0% 100.0% 50.0% 66.7%
Medicaid 13.8% 3.4% - 8.0% 7.7% 13.3% - - 25.0% 33.3%
Medicare - - 5.6% 8.0% - - 6.7% - 25.0% -
Other 3.4% 13.8% 22.2% 4.0% - - 13.3% - - -
Unknown 6.9% 3.4% - - - - - - - -


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 living donor lung was one of the organs transplanted.



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