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Table 11.4

Transplant Recipient Characteristics, 2000 to 2009

Heart Recipients

Primary Payment Source	Year of Transplant
Primary Payment Source	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Total	2,199	2,202	2,155	2,057	2,015	2,125	2,193	2,209	2,163	2,212
Private Insurance	1,328	1,315	1,267	1,184	1,100	1,182	1,218	1,188	1,131	1,187
Medicaid	283	298	315	331	376	339	339	383	381	352
Medicare	456	449	480	437	457	476	532	514	544	566
Other	132	140	93	105	82	128	104	124	107	107
Total (%)	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%
Private Insurance	60.4%	59.7%	58.8%	57.6%	54.6%	55.6%	55.5%	53.8%	52.3%	53.7%
Medicaid	12.9%	13.5%	14.6%	16.1%	18.7%	16.0%	15.5%	17.3%	17.6%	15.9%
Medicare	20.7%	20.4%	22.3%	21.2%	22.7%	22.4%	24.3%	23.3%	25.2%	25.6%
Other	6.0%	6.4%	4.3%	5.1%	4.1%	6.0%	4.7%	5.6%	4.9%	4.8%

Source: OPTN/SRTR Data as of October 1, 2010.

(-) = 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.