Table 11.4

Transplant Recipient Characteristics, 1997 to 2006

Heart Recipients

Primary Payment Source Year of Transplant
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Total 2,293 2,348 2,188 2,199 2,202 2,155 2,057 2,015 2,125 2,192
Private Insurance 1,388 1,382 1,337 1,328 1,315 1,267 1,184 1,099 1,182 1,211
Medicare 470 509 439 456 449 480 437 457 476 528
Medicaid 256 257 267 283 298 315 331 376 339 336
Other 105 126 118 132 140 93 105 83 128 103
Unknown 74 74 27 - - - - - - 14
Total (%) 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Private Insurance 60.5% 58.9% 61.1% 60.4% 59.7% 58.8% 57.6% 54.5% 55.6% 55.2%
Medicare 20.5% 21.7% 20.1% 20.7% 20.4% 22.3% 21.2% 22.7% 22.4% 24.1%
Medicaid 11.2% 10.9% 12.2% 12.9% 13.5% 14.6% 16.1% 18.7% 16.0% 15.3%
Other 4.6% 5.4% 5.4% 6.0% 6.4% 4.3% 5.1% 4.1% 6.0% 4.7%
Unknown 3.2% 3.2% 1.2% - - - - - - 0.6%


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

(-) = None in category.

These data include multi-organ transplants, other than heart-lung, in which a deceased donor heart was one of the organs transplanted.