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Table 13.4

Transplant Recipient Characteristics, 1999 to 2008

Heart-Lung Recipients

Primary Payment Source	Year of Transplant
Primary Payment Source	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Total	51	48	27	33	29	40	35	31	31	27
Private Insurance	32	31	21	23	18	29	21	23	17	17
Medicaid	7	10	3	4	5	5	7	3	6	5
Medicare	11	6	3	4	2	6	6	5	7	4
Other	1	1	-	2	4	-	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	62.7%	64.6%	77.8%	69.7%	62.1%	72.5%	60.0%	74.2%	54.8%	63.0%
Medicaid	13.7%	20.8%	11.1%	12.1%	17.2%	12.5%	20.0%	9.7%	19.4%	18.5%
Medicare	21.6%	12.5%	11.1%	12.1%	6.9%	15.0%	17.1%	16.1%	22.6%	14.8%
Other	2.0%	2.1%	-	6.1%	13.8%	-	2.9%	-	3.2%	3.7%

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

(-) = None in category.

These data include multi-organ transplants in which a heart and a lung were among the organs transplanted.

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