Table 13.4

Transplant Recipient Characteristics, 1997 to 2006

Heart-Lung Recipients

Primary Payment Source Year of Transplant
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Total 62 47 51 48 27 33 29 40 35 31
Private Insurance 34 31 32 31 21 23 18 29 21 23
Medicare 9 6 11 6 3 4 2 6 6 5
Medicaid 11 3 7 10 3 4 5 5 7 3
Other 7 6 1 1 - 2 4 - 1 -
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 54.8% 66.0% 62.7% 64.6% 77.8% 69.7% 62.1% 72.5% 60.0% 74.2%
Medicare 14.5% 12.8% 21.6% 12.5% 11.1% 12.1% 6.9% 15.0% 17.1% 16.1%
Medicaid 17.7% 6.4% 13.7% 20.8% 11.1% 12.1% 17.2% 12.5% 20.0% 9.7%
Other 11.3% 12.8% 2.0% 2.1% - 6.1% 13.8% - 2.9% -
Unknown 1.6% 2.1% - - - - - - - -


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

(-) = None in category.

These data include multi-organ transplants in which a heart and a lung were among the organs transplanted.