Table 7.4

Transplant Recipient Characteristics, 1997 to 2006

Pancreas After Kidney (PAK) Recipients

Primary Payment Source Year of Transplant
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Total 130 156 220 304 305 375 344 420 343 293
Private Insurance 82 109 124 172 153 168 179 201 155 157
Medicare 33 31 78 121 138 193 157 198 173 122
Medicaid 9 10 10 7 12 9 8 16 13 8
Other 5 5 6 4 2 5 - 5 2 4
Unknown 1 1 2 - - - - - - 2
Total (%) 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Private Insurance 63.1% 69.9% 56.4% 56.6% 50.2% 44.8% 52.0% 47.9% 45.2% 53.6%
Medicare 25.4% 19.9% 35.5% 39.8% 45.2% 51.5% 45.6% 47.1% 50.4% 41.6%
Medicaid 6.9% 6.4% 4.5% 2.3% 3.9% 2.4% 2.3% 3.8% 3.8% 2.7%
Other 3.8% 3.2% 2.7% 1.3% 0.7% 1.3% - 1.2% 0.6% 1.4%
Unknown 0.8% 0.6% 0.9% - - - - - - 0.7%


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 after kidney (pak) was one of the organs transplanted.