Cost of finding a donor is under ‘procurement’. As far as I can tell, the immunosuppressant entry only covers the first year of post-transplant care, so factoring in a five-year mean survival time gives the $1.1 million figure I mentioned.
$1.1M was at least an order of magnitude larger than my guesstimate for the price of the transplant itself, so I wondered if that figure included something else. [follows link] OK, the figure for “physician during transplant” was indeed within an order of magnitude of what I expected, but hardly any of the other expenses had even occurred to me.
There are other estimates available on the web, but I worked off this one:
http://www.transplantliving.org/before-the-transplant/financing-a-transplant/the-costs/
Cost of finding a donor is under ‘procurement’. As far as I can tell, the immunosuppressant entry only covers the first year of post-transplant care, so factoring in a five-year mean survival time gives the $1.1 million figure I mentioned.
$1.1M was at least an order of magnitude larger than my guesstimate for the price of the transplant itself, so I wondered if that figure included something else. [follows link] OK, the figure for “physician during transplant” was indeed within an order of magnitude of what I expected, but hardly any of the other expenses had even occurred to me.