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Table 9.4a

Transplant Recipient Characteristics, 1999 to 2008

Recipients of Deceased Donor Livers

Primary Payment Source	Year of Transplant
Primary Payment Source	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Total	4,498	4,595	4,672	4,969	5,351	5,848	6,121	6,363	6,228	6,069
Private Insurance	2,929	2,976	2,992	3,230	3,342	3,531	3,620	3,756	3,663	3,555
Medicaid	655	664	703	757	833	957	1,041	1,086	1,000	998
Medicare	581	631	670	706	888	1,055	1,145	1,190	1,280	1,242
Other	315	324	307	276	288	305	314	331	285	258
Unknown	18	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	16
Total (%)	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%
Private Insurance	65.1%	64.8%	64.0%	65.0%	62.5%	60.4%	59.1%	59.0%	58.8%	58.6%
Medicaid	14.6%	14.5%	15.0%	15.2%	15.6%	16.4%	17.0%	17.1%	16.1%	16.4%
Medicare	12.9%	13.7%	14.3%	14.2%	16.6%	18.0%	18.7%	18.7%	20.6%	20.5%
Other	7.0%	7.1%	6.6%	5.6%	5.4%	5.2%	5.1%	5.2%	4.6%	4.3%
Unknown	0.4%	-	-	-	-	-	0.0%	-	-	0.3%

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

(-) = None in category.

These data include multi-organ transplants in which a deceased donor liver was one of the organs transplanted.

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