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

Autor:	Xu K; George Washington University, Milken Institute School of Public Health, Washington, DC., Dor A; George Washington University, Milken Institute School of Public Health, Washington, DC.; National Bureau of Economics Research, Cambridge, MA., Mohanty S; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN., Han J; Division of Nephrology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada., Parvathinathan G; Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA., Braggs-Gresham JL; Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI., Held PJ; Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA., Roberts JP; Department of Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA., Vaughan W; Transplant Solutions LLC, Tampa, FL., Tan JC; Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA., Scandling JD; Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA., Chertow GM; Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA., Busque S; Department of Surgery, Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA., Cheng XS; Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Medical care [Med Care] 2024 Aug 01; Vol. 62 (8), pp. 521-529. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jun 12.
DOI:	10.1097/MLR.0000000000002028
Abstrakt:	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 OACC costs against proxy measures for volumes of pretransplant services and adjusting for patient characteristics, to calculate the marginal cost of each pretransplant service. Results: Over 1015 adult hospital-years, median OACC costs attributable to the pretransplant services were $5 million. Marginal costs for the pretransplant services were: initial transplant evaluation, $9k per waitlist addition; waitlist management, $2k per patient-year on the waitlist; deceased donor offer management, $1k per offer; living donor evaluation, procurement and follow-up: $26k per living donor. Longer time on dialysis among patients added to the waitlist was associated with higher OACC costs at the transplant hospital. Conclusions: To achieve the policy goals of more access to KTx, sufficient funding is needed to support the increase in volume of pretransplant services. Future studies should assess the relative value of each service and explore ways to enhance efficiency. Competing Interests: The authors declare no conflict of interest. (Copyright © 2024 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.)
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