Nebraska Center for Rural Health Research

Authors: Jami Fletcher, Wanqing Zhang, and Angella Bowman

Most patients were covered by commercial insurance (67.6%) or public insurance (32.3%). Nebraska discharge data generally showed a shorter average length of stay (ALOS) for the most frequent type of transplants than the ALOS for the nation. The most frequent transplants in Nebraska were kidney and liver. National data are similar. The largest percentage of transplant discharges were patients who were in the 15 to 44 (44.6%) and 45 to 64 (36.5%) age groups. This is comparable to national data. The most frequent transplants performed on Nebraska residents were kidney and autologous hematopoietic stem cell. Forty-four percent of Nebraska's transplant discharges were patients who came from other states. Transplants of the liver were the primary reasons for these hospitalizations.

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