Abstract
While the costs to Medicare of solid organ transplant are varied and considerable, the total Medicare expenditure of $4.4 billion for solid organ transplant recipients was less than 1 remains one of the most cost-effective surgical interventions in medicine. Heart transplant, the most expensive of the major transplants, is likely cost-effective; SRTR has released an Excel-based tool for investigators to use in exploring this question further. It is likely that most solid organ transplants are cost-effective, given the results presented here and the relatively high cost of heart transplant. However, this must be verified with further study.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1-24 |
Number of pages | 24 |
Journal | American Journal of Transplantation |
Volume | 15 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2015 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© Copyright 2015 The American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons
Keywords
- Costs and cost analysis
- Medicare
- cost-benefit analysis
- health expenditures