Journal article
ECONOMICS
American journal of transplantation, Vol.16, pp.169-194
01/01/2016
DOI: 10.1111/ajt.13672
PMID: 26755268
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.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- ECONOMICS
- Creators
- M. A. Schnitzler - Saint Louis UniversityM. Valapour - Medical Research FoundationM. A. Skeans - Medical Research FoundationD. A. Axelrod - Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical CenterK. L. Lentine - Saint Louis UniversityH. B. Randall - Saint Louis UniversityJ. J. Snyder - University of MinnesotaA. K. Israni - Hennepin County Medical CenterB. L. Kasiske - Hennepin County Medical Center
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- American journal of transplantation, Vol.16, pp.169-194
- DOI
- 10.1111/ajt.13672
- PMID
- 26755268
- NLM abbreviation
- Am J Transplant
- ISSN
- 1600-6135
- eISSN
- 1600-6143
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Number of pages
- 26
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2016
- Academic Unit
- Surgery
- Record Identifier
- 9984322949702771
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