Abstract
Medicare costs vary for solid organ transplant recipients by outcome: survival with graft function, survival with graft failure, and death. Average per-person per-year reimbursement was $75 thousand for kidney recipients who survived the first year posttransplant with a functioning graft, $171 thousand for those who required a return to dialysis or retransplant, and $350 thousand for those who died with function. For pancreas recipients: $105 thousand for those who survived the first year with a functioning graft, $120 thousand for those who survived pancreas failure, and $443 thousand for those who died with function. For liver recipients: $154 thousand for those who survived with a functioning graft, $388 thousand for those who required retransplant, and $740 thousand who died with function. For intestine recipients: $301 thousand for those who survived with a functioning graft and $1 million for those who died with function. For heart recipients: $272 thousand for those who survived with a functioning graft and $1.2 million for those who died with function. For lung recipients: $196 thousand for those who survived with a functioning graft, $642 thousand for those who required retransplant, and $761 thousand for those who died with function.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 464-503 |
| Number of pages | 40 |
| Journal | American Journal of Transplantation |
| Volume | 18 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Publications based on data in this report or supplied on request must include a citation and the following statement: The data and analyses reported in the 2016 Annual Data Report of the U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network and the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients have been supplied by the United Network for Organ Sharing and the Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation under contract with HHS/HRSA. The authors alone are responsible for reporting and interpreting these data; the views expressed herein are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the U.S. Government.
Funding Information:
The publication was produced for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, by the Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation (MMRF) and by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) under contracts HHSH250201500009C and 234-2005-37011C, respectively.
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Keywords
- Cost-benefit analysis
- costs and cost analysis
- health expenditures
- Medicare