Table 6.4

Transplant Recipient Characteristics, 1997 to 2006

Pancreas Transplant Alone (PTA) Recipients

Primary Payment Source Year of Transplant
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Total 79 88 139 134 167 180 158 182 198 169
Private Insurance 56 65 105 105 115 134 124 124 138 110
Medicare 6 5 20 16 25 19 15 27 21 22
Medicaid 10 14 6 9 22 19 14 23 31 31
Other 7 4 6 4 5 8 5 8 8 6
Unknown - - 2 - - - - - - -
Total (%) 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Private Insurance 70.9% 73.9% 75.5% 78.4% 68.9% 74.4% 78.5% 68.1% 69.7% 65.1%
Medicare 7.6% 5.7% 14.4% 11.9% 15.0% 10.6% 9.5% 14.8% 10.6% 13.0%
Medicaid 12.7% 15.9% 4.3% 6.7% 13.2% 10.6% 8.9% 12.6% 15.7% 18.3%
Other 8.9% 4.5% 4.3% 3.0% 3.0% 4.4% 3.2% 4.4% 4.0% 3.6%
Unknown - - 1.4% - - - - - - -


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

(-) = None in category.

These data include multi-organ transplants, other than kidney-pancreas, in which a deceased donor pancreas transplant alone (pta) was one of the organs transplanted.