Table 12.4b

Transplant Recipient Characteristics, 1997 to 2006

Recipients of Living Donor Lungs

Primary Payment Source Year of Transplant
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Total 21 29 29 18 25 13 15 15 1 4
Private Insurance 15 21 24 13 20 12 13 12 1 2
Medicare 1 1 - 1 2 - - 1 - 1
Medicaid 4 4 1 - 2 1 2 1 - 1
Other - 1 4 4 1 - - 1 - -
Unknown 1 2 - - - - - - - -
Total (%) 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Private Insurance 71.4% 72.4% 82.8% 72.2% 80.0% 92.3% 86.7% 80.0% 100.0% 50.0%
Medicare 4.8% 3.4% - 5.6% 8.0% - - 6.7% - 25.0%
Medicaid 19.0% 13.8% 3.4% - 8.0% 7.7% 13.3% 6.7% - 25.0%
Other - 3.4% 13.8% 22.2% 4.0% - - 6.7% - -
Unknown 4.8% 6.9% - - - - - - - -


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 living donor lung was one of the organs transplanted.