title: Economics.
abstract: While the costs to Medicare of solid organ transplants are varied and considerable, the total Medicare expenditure of $4.2 billion for solid organ transplant recipients in 2013 remains less than 1% of all Medicare expenditures. Kidney transplant remains one of the most cost-effective surgical interventions in medicine and exhibits a rare feature in that it is generally known to be cost-saving in the long term. For patients covered by Medicare, lung transplant is one of the more costly solid organ transplants performed. This chapter reports pretransplant costs for lung candidates to allow investigators to further explore the relative cost of lung transplant compared with alternative management.
authors.affiliation: Center for Outcomes Research, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.|Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Schnitzler
authors.affiliation: Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN.|Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Valapour
authors.affiliation: Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Skeans
authors.affiliation: Section of Transplant Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH.
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Axelrod
authors.affiliation: Center for Outcomes Research, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
authors.forename: K L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Lentine
authors.affiliation: Division of Abdominal Transplant, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
authors.forename: H B
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Randall
authors.affiliation: Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN.|Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Snyder
authors.affiliation: Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN.|Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.|Department of Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Israni
authors.affiliation: Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN.|Department of Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
authors.forename: B L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Kasiske
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D006278:Medicare; D008875:Middle Aged; D018803:Models, Economic; D016377:Organ Transplantation / Q000191:economics* / Q000379:methods*; D010359:Patient Readmission; D014481:United States; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Cost-benefit analysis; Medicare; costs and cost analysis; health expenditures