Reimbursing Living Organ Donors for Incurred Costs

Klarenbach, Scott; Vlaicu, Sorina; Garg, Amit X.

doi:10.1111/j.1600-6143.2006.01682.x

American Journal of Transplantation

2007

DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2006.01682.x

|View full text |Cite

Reimbursing Living Organ Donors for Incurred Costs

Scott Klarenbach¹,

Sorina Vlaicu²,

Amit X. Garg³

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...

Citation Types

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Year Published

2007

2020

Publication Types

Select...

Article3

Relationship

Self Cite1

Independent2

Authors

Journals

Cited by 3 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 5 publications

(6 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…[13][14][15] While several countries have implemented national or subnational reimbursement programs, Canada currently lacks a unified strategy to reimburse living donors for their non-medical expenses. 16,17 In 2005, we communicated with 78 individuals within the field of Canadian transplantation to identify which initiatives for reimbursement of living donors currently exist in each province and to ascertain provincial or institutional capacity to administer a comprehensive reimbursement program, should it be funded by the government.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Current Canadian Initiatives to Reimburse Live Organ Donors for their Non-Medical Expenses

Vlaicu

Klarenbach

Yang

et al. 2007

Can J Public Health

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Living organ donors frequently incur non-medical expenses for travel, accommodation, prescription drugs, loss of income, and child care in conjunction with organ donation. Despite international precedent and widespread public support, Canada currently lacks a unified strategy to reimburse donors for these expenses. In 2005, we communicated with 78 individuals within the field of Canadian transplantation to identify which initiatives for reimbursement of living donors existed in each province. Saskatchewan was the only province in which public employees were granted paid leave for organ donation. Six provincial governments partially reimbursed travel and accommodation. At the federal level, other expenses could be partially reimbursed through an income tax credit, while the Employment Insurance program and the Canada Pension Plan provided funding for donors who become unemployed or develop longterm disability as a result of donation. Charities helped a limited number of patients in financial need through grants and no-interest loans, but funding was generally limited by contributions received. While reimbursing living donors for their non-medical expenses is considered just, existing programs only partially reimburse expenses and are not available in all provinces. Developing future reimbursement policies will remove a disincentive faced by some potential donors, and may increase rates of transplantation in Canada.MeSH terms: Living donors; kidney transplantation; health policy; economics; costs and cost analysis RÉSUMÉLes donneurs vivants engagent souvent des dépenses extramédicales (frais de déplacement et d'hébergement, achat de médicaments sur ordonnance, perte de revenus, frais de garde d'enfants) en liaison avec leurs dons d'organes. Or, malgré les précédents internationaux et l'appui généralisé du public, le Canada n'a pas de stratégie unifiée pour leur rembourser ces dépenses. En 2005, nous avons communiqué avec 78 intervenants du secteur de la transplantation au Canada afin de repérer, dans chaque province, les initiatives de remboursement des dépenses des donneurs vivants. La Saskatchewan est la seule province qui octroie un congé payé aux fonctionnaires faisant un don d'organe. Six administrations provinciales remboursent en partie leurs frais de déplacement et d'hébergement. Dans l'administration fédérale, d'autres frais peuvent être partiellement remboursés par un crédit d'impôt sur le revenu, et le programme d'assurance-emploi et le Régime de pensions du Canada prévoient des fonds pour les donneurs qui ont perdu leur emploi ou qui présentent des limitations fonctionnelles de longue durée en raison d'un don d'organe. Des oeuvres de bienfaisance aident un petit nombre de patients en difficulté financière en leur octroyant des subventions et des prêts sans intérêt, mais le montant du financement est en général limité par les contributions reçues. On considère qu'il est juste de rembourser les dépenses extramédicales des donneurs vivants, mais les programmes existants n'en remboursent qu'une partie, et t...

show abstract

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Current Canadian Initiatives to Reimburse Live Organ Donors for their Non-Medical Expenses

Vlaicu

Klarenbach

Yang

et al. 2007

Can J Public Health

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Public survey of financial incentives for kidney donation

Kranenburg¹,

Schram²,

Zuidema

et al. 2007

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Best practices to optimize utilization of the National Living Donor Assistance Center for the financial assistance of living organ donors

Mathur

Lewis

Warren

et al. 2020

American Journal of Transplantation

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.

Contact Info

hi@scite.ai

10624 S. Eastern Ave., Ste. A-614

Henderson, NV 89052, USA

Blog Terms and Conditions API Terms Privacy Policy Contact Cookie Preferences Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information

Made with 💙 for researchers

Part of the Research Solutions Family.

Reimbursing Living Organ Donors for Incurred Costs

Cited by 3 publications

References 5 publications

Current Canadian Initiatives to Reimburse Live Organ Donors for their Non-Medical Expenses

Current Canadian Initiatives to Reimburse Live Organ Donors for their Non-Medical Expenses

Public survey of financial incentives for kidney donation

Best practices to optimize utilization of the National Living Donor Assistance Center for the financial assistance of living organ donors

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About