Table 9.4b

Transplant Recipient Characteristics, 1997 to 2006

Recipients of Living Donor Livers

Primary Payment Source Year of Transplant
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Total 86 92 253 400 520 362 322 323 321 287
Private Insurance 62 57 174 297 385 279 238 240 238 197
Medicare - 4 15 34 48 28 23 34 31 37
Medicaid 18 23 41 43 56 41 44 37 36 40
Other 5 8 23 26 31 14 17 12 16 12
Unknown 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 72.1% 62.0% 68.8% 74.3% 74.0% 77.1% 73.9% 74.3% 74.1% 68.6%
Medicare - 4.3% 5.9% 8.5% 9.2% 7.7% 7.1% 10.5% 9.7% 12.9%
Medicaid 20.9% 25.0% 16.2% 10.8% 10.8% 11.3% 13.7% 11.5% 11.2% 13.9%
Other 5.8% 8.7% 9.1% 6.5% 6.0% 3.9% 5.3% 3.7% 5.0% 4.2%
Unknown 1.2% - - - - - - - - 0.3%


Source: OPTN/SRTR Data as of May 1, 2007.

(-) = None in category.

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