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Table 6.4

Transplant Recipient Characteristics, 1999 to 2008

Pancreas Transplant Alone (PTA) Recipients

Primary Payment Source Year of Transplant
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Total 139 134 168 181 160 183 199 173 208 223
Private Insurance 105 105 115 135 124 124 138 111 133 120
Medicaid 6 9 22 19 15 24 32 34 39 60
Medicare 20 16 25 19 16 27 21 22 29 28
Other 6 4 5 8 5 8 8 6 7 15
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 75.5% 78.4% 68.5% 74.6% 77.5% 67.8% 69.3% 64.2% 63.9% 53.8%
Medicaid 4.3% 6.7% 13.1% 10.5% 9.4% 13.1% 16.1% 19.7% 18.8% 26.9%
Medicare 14.4% 11.9% 14.9% 10.5% 10.0% 14.8% 10.6% 12.7% 13.9% 12.6%
Other 4.3% 3.0% 3.0% 4.4% 3.1% 4.4% 4.0% 3.5% 3.4% 6.7%
Unknown 1.4% - 0.6% - - - - - - -


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

(-) = None in category.

These data include multi-organ transplants, other than kidney-pancreas, in which a deceased donor pancreas transplant alone (pta) was one of the organs transplanted.



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