Liver Transplantation Costs in the Era of a Health Care Crisis: Are We Looking Beyond and Thinking About the Economics

摘要

Thanks are due to Buchanan et al.' for familiarizingus with the cost of the medical care that we provide, atopic that many of us often ignore. They projected thecost of transplantation (based on the amount chargedand not on the real dollar amount paid) at differentperiods of transplantation (before transplantation, attransplantation, and after transplantation). Theyrelated the cost to the Model for End-Stage Liver Dis-ease (MELD) score and projected that pretransplantand transplant charges were higher by