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Table 6.4

Transplant Recipient Characteristics, 1998 to 2007

Pancreas Transplant Alone (PTA) Recipients

Primary Payment Source	Year of Transplant
Primary Payment Source	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Total	88	139	134	167	181	160	183	199	173	208
Private Insurance	65	105	105	115	135	125	124	138	111	130
Medicaid	14	6	9	22	19	15	24	32	34	39
Medicare	5	20	16	25	19	15	27	21	22	29
Other	4	6	4	5	8	5	8	8	6	7
Unknown	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3
Total (%)	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%
Private Insurance	73.9%	75.5%	78.4%	68.9%	74.6%	78.1%	67.8%	69.3%	64.2%	62.5%
Medicaid	15.9%	4.3%	6.7%	13.2%	10.5%	9.4%	13.1%	16.1%	19.7%	18.8%
Medicare	5.7%	14.4%	11.9%	15.0%	10.5%	9.4%	14.8%	10.6%	12.7%	13.9%
Other	4.5%	4.3%	3.0%	3.0%	4.4%	3.1%	4.4%	4.0%	3.5%	3.4%
Unknown	-	1.4%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.4%

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

(-) = 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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