The High Out-of-Pocket Cost of Donating a Kidney

August 7, 2023

(Associated Press) – Five years have now passed since I donated my kidney, and both Deb and I are doing well. I co-authored a book about my experience as an altruistic living kidney donor and have spoken at more than 30 universities, bioethics centers, medical conferences, and transplant clinics. The more I have learned about living kidney donation, the more I have come to question how cavalierly I accepted that I would have to pay actual cash to do that good deed. (Read More)