Living kidney donation in
Colorado
Verified centers in Colorado
AdventHealth Porter
Denver, CO
NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchangeAdventHealth Porter's living-donor page says candidates meet individually with a social worker, donor advocate, nephrologist, and surgeon, and that a Patient Review Committee reviews the full case before donation surgery is scheduled; it says the donor evaluation cost is fully covered.
Children's Hospital Colorado
Aurora, CO
NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchange · not yet verifiedChildren's Colorado's live-donor page says its coordinators connect an adult donating a kidney to a child there with University of Colorado Hospital's Transplant Center, where the donor's evaluation and surgery happen, and that donors get an Independent Donor Advocate separate from the child's team.
Presbyterian/St Luke's Medical Center
Denver, CO
NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchangeHCA HealthONE Presbyterian St. Luke's kidney-transplant page describes a paired-donation program it calls the KPD program, and a Living Donor Champion program that trains a family member or friend to help a patient find a living donor.
University of Colorado Hospital/Health Science Center
Aurora, CO
NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchangeUCHealth's living-donation page says an evaluation typically takes one to two days and includes a living donor physician, surgeon, nurse coordinator, and social worker, and that every donor is assigned an independent living donor advocate separate from the transplant team.
Living donors in Colorado: grade B
Colorado has 4 of the seven protections tracked, which is around the national middle. Check which ones cover your situation before you plan around them.
What the American Kidney Fund tracks, in every state
- Insurance companies cannot deny you life, disability or long-term care cover, or charge you more, because you donated
- Job-protected leave if you work for the state
- Job-protected leave if you work for a private employer
- Paid leave for living donors
- A tax credit or deduction for your donation costs
- Direct reimbursement of donation expenses
- A tax credit for employers who give donors paid leave
This is the full list AKF scores every state against — not a claim about which of these Colorado has. The fact sheet below has that detail, and it is more current than anything cached here.
Federal family leave can already cover donation. A law written for living donors has not passed yet.
The Department of Labor's position, set out in a formal opinion letter, is that donation surgery and the recovery after it count as a serious health condition under the Family and Medical Leave Act whenever they involve an overnight hospital stay, as donation surgery commonly does. So if you are eligible under that Act, you can take leave to donate and recover, come back to the same or an equivalent job, and keep your group health cover while you are away. The leave itself is unpaid, though paid leave your employer offers can run alongside it. Eligibility depends on the size of your employer and your workplace, and on how long and how many hours you have worked there — the Department of Labor's fact sheet sets out the exact tests, and your employer's HR team can confirm them for you.
The Living Donor Protection Act would write that leave protection into the law itself, and would stop life, disability and long-term care insurers from refusing cover or charging more because you donated. It has not passed. The Senate version has cleared its committee and is awaiting a floor vote; the House version has not moved since it was introduced. Paid leave, and protection for anyone the family-leave law does not reach, depends on what your state has done.
U.S. Department of Labor, opinion letter FMLA2018-2-A; U.S. Department of Labor, FMLA eligibility fact sheet; Congress.gov, S. 1552 / H.R. 4583, checked 24 September 2026
What it costs, and what covers it
The recipient's insurance covers a donor's evaluation, surgery and follow-up. Programs like NLDAC reimburse travel, lodging, dependent care and lost wages for donors who need it — the donor guide walks through both, with sources.
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