ROI Calculator

The ROI Calculator will estimate the return on investment (ROI) for growing your living kidney donation program.

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Select a Key Strategy

Select at least one Growth Strategy alongside Cost Estimate: Additional Staff for Living Donation. Otherwise, you will get a negative return for adding staff without program growth.

Growth Strategy: More Living Donor Kidney Transplants

Calculate the financial benefits of growing kidney transplant living donor volume compared to deceased donor volume.

Growth Strategy: External Kidney Paired Exchange

Calculate the financial benefits of starting or growing external paired exchange at your program.

Cost Estimate: Additional Staff for Living Donation

Calculate the true cost of investing in additional living donation staff based on Medicare reimbursement.

Growth Strategy: More Living Donor Kidney Transplants

Projected Volume of Non-Medicare living donor kidney transplants

Annual total

Average OPO Kidney Fee $

Per deceased donor

Average Additional Transportation Costs (if applicable) $

Per donor. Enter 0 if not applicable.

Average Facility Cost of a Living Donor Nephrectomy $

Per living donor

Average Cost of Outpatient Facility living donor evaluation services $

Per living donor

Average Cost of Physician Pre-transplant Evaluation Services $

Per living donor

Average Cost of Other External living donor testing (if applicable) $

Per donor. Enter 0 if not applicable.

Growth Strategy: External Kidney Paired Exchange

Projected Volume of External Kidney Paired Exchange Transplants

Annual total

Average Cost of Living Donor Nephrectomy $

Per external living donor

Average Cost of Additional Evaluation Testing (if applicable) $

Per external living donor

Average Transportation Costs $

Per external living donor

Estimated External Kidney Paired Exchange Registry Fees (Annual) $

Total annual fee

Hospital Overhead (Administration) % %

Percentage of the total costs that are attributed to administrative overhead expenses incurred

Cost Estimate: Additional Staff for Living Donation

Number of Additional Staff (FTE)

Full-time equivalent for additional staff

Average Annual Salary $

Per FTE

Organ Acquisition Admin % %

Per FTE

Employee Benefits % %

From Cost Report

Hospital Overhead (Administration) % %

Percentage of hospital overhead for staffing