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 |
Keywords
- Cost-benefit analysis
- costs and cost analysis
- health expenditures
- Medicare
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Immunology and Allergy
- Transplantation
- Pharmacology (medical)