The Medical Costs of Determining Eligibility and Waiting for a Kidney Transplantation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent efforts to increase access to kidney transplant (KTx) in the United States include increasing referrals to transplant programs, leading to more pretransplant services. Transplant programs reconcile the costs of these services through the Organ Acquisition Cost Center (OACC).

Objective

The aim of this study was to determine the costs associated with pretransplant services by applying microeconomic methods to OACC costs reported by transplant hospitals.

Research design, subjects, and measures

For all US adult kidney transplant hospitals from 2013 through 2018 (n=193), we crosslinked the total OACC costs (at the hospital-fiscal year level) to proxy measures of volumes of pretransplant services. We used a multiple-output cost function, regressing total O

SUBMITTER: Xu K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11226385 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature