Financial Impact of a Culturally Sensitive Hispanic Kidney Transplant Program on Increasing Living Donation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the United States, Hispanic/Latinx patients receive disproportionately fewer living donor kidney transplants (LDKTs) than non-Hispanic White patients. Northwestern Medicine's culturally targeted Hispanic Kidney Transplant Program (HKTP) was found to increase LDKTs in Hispanic patients at 1 of 2 transplant programs with greater implementation fidelity.

Methods

We conducted a budget impact analysis to evaluate HKTP's impact on program financial profiles from changes in volume of LDKTs and deceased donor kidney transplants (DDKTs) in 2017 to 2019. We estimated HKTP programmatic costs, and kidney transplant (KT) program costs and revenues. We forecasted transplant volumes, HKTP programmatic costs, and KT program costs and revenues for 2022-2024.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Wang A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10065884 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature