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Insurance Status Affects Survival After Lung Transplant

Caroline Helwick

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April 23, 2010 (Chicago, Illinois) — Type of healthcare insurance has a significant effect on long-term survival after lung transplantation, which persists after adjustment for potential confounders, according to a retrospective cohort study of all primary lung transplants performed in the United States between 1998 and 2008.
Medicare and Medicaid patients were found to have absolute decreases in 10-year survival of 7.0% and 8.1%, respectively, Jeremiah G. Allen, MD, from Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, Maryland, reported here at the International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation 30th Anniversary Meeting.
"The differences first manifest at 3 years posttransplant; they are not related to deaths or rejections in the first year," he noted.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/720735