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Financial Matters: Liver Transplant Costs When considering a liver transplant, the associated costs and how you can best handle them must also be considered. At California Pacific Medical Center, a financial coordinator meets with patients during their initial evaluation to review specific insurance coverage issues related to transplantation. Following your transplant, you will need several drugs, called immunosuppresives, to sustain your transplanted liver. The immunosuppressive medications may include Neoral, Cellcept, Prograf and Prednisone. The following are estimates and depend on the dosage and pharmacy used. Note that most health plans pay a percentage of medication costs, as described in the next section. Few patients are able to pay all of the transplantation costs from a single source. For example, you may be able to finance the transplant procedure through insurance coverage and pay for other expenses by drawing on savings accounts and other private funds or by selling some of your assets. Most likely, you will have to rely on a combination of funding sources. During your evaluation at California Pacific, you will meet with a transplant coordinator to discuss financing options and possible sources for obtaining funds. Among the most common funding sources include: private insurance, Medicare and Medi-Cal, CHAMPUS, Veterans Administration Benefits, Social Security Income (SSI) / Social Security Disability Income (SSDI), Charitable Organizations, Fundraising Campaigns and Self-Pay.