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Table 12.4

Transplant Recipient Characteristics, 2000 to 2009

Recipients of Deceased Donor Lungs

Primary Payment Source Year of Transplant
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Total 941 1,034 1,029 1,070 1,157 1,405 1,401 1,465 1,478 1,660
Private Insurance 613 644 679 687 655 872 830 876 840 897
Medicaid 72 79 75 83 118 123 126 114 111 137
Medicare 198 256 231 241 326 350 389 421 459 553
Other 58 54 44 59 58 60 56 54 68 73
Unknown - 1 - - - - - - - -
Total (%) 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Private Insurance 65.1% 62.3% 66.0% 64.2% 56.6% 62.1% 59.2% 59.8% 56.8% 54.0%
Medicaid 7.7% 7.6% 7.3% 7.8% 10.2% 8.8% 9.0% 7.8% 7.5% 8.3%
Medicare 21.0% 24.8% 22.4% 22.5% 28.2% 24.9% 27.8% 28.7% 31.1% 33.3%
Other 6.2% 5.2% 4.3% 5.5% 5.0% 4.3% 4.0% 3.7% 4.6% 4.4%
Unknown - 0.1% - - - - - - - -


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 lung was one of

the organs transplanted.