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OPTN/SRTR 2015 Annual Data Report: Economics
Author(s) -
Schnitzler M. A.,
Skeans M. A.,
Axelrod D. A.,
Lentine K. L.,
Randall H. B.,
Snyder J. J.,
Israni A. K.,
Kasiske B. L.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
american journal of transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.89
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1600-6143
pISSN - 1600-6135
DOI - 10.1111/ajt.14130
Subject(s) - medicine , solid organ , medicare part b , organ transplantation , intensive care medicine , surgery , transplantation , finance , economics , payment
Abstract While the costs to Medicare of solid organ transplants are varied and considerable, the total Medicare expenditure of $4.4 billion for solid organ transplant recipients in 2014 remained less than 1% of all Medicare expenditures. For patients covered by Medicare, the ratio of pre‐ to posttransplant cost of care varied widely by organ and within some organ categories by patient characteristics. This chapter reports pretransplant costs for all solid organ candidates covered by Medicare to allow investigators to further explore the relative cost of transplant compared with alternative management.