title: OPTN/SRTR 2015 Annual Data Report: Economics.
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.
authors.affiliation: Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN.|Department of Surgery, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Schnitzler
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: Department of Surgery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Axelrod
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
authors.forename: K L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Lentine
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, 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: D000847:Annual Reports as Topic; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D016377:Organ Transplantation / Q000191:economics*; D040841:Resource Allocation / Q000191:economics*; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000191:economics* / Q000379:methods; D014481:United States; D014850:Waiting Lists
keywords: Cost-benefit analysis; Medicare; costs and cost analysis; health expenditures