Living kidney donation in
New York
Verified centers in New York
Albany Medical Center Hospital
Albany, NY
NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchange · not yet verifiedAlbany Medical Center's kidney transplant page says its program has received living-donor kidneys from family members and friends for decades, with a focus on donor safety and wellbeing.
Erie County Medical Center
Buffalo, NY
NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchangeECMC's living-donor page says it offers paired exchange for donor-recipient pairs who are not compatible, letting incompatible pairs exchange donors with another pair.
James J. Peters VA Medical Center
Bronx, NY
NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchange · not yet verifiedThe Bronx VA's facility page says its transplant surgeons perform transplants, including kidney, using organs from living or deceased donors, through its Renal Transplant Department.
Long Island Jewish Medical Center-Cohen Children's Medical Center
Queens, NY
NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchange · not yet verifiedCohen Children's pediatric kidney transplant page says a donor must be an adult in good health, generally between eighteen and sixty years old, without high blood pressure, cancer, diabetes, kidney disease, or heart disease.
Montefiore Medical Center
Bronx, NY
NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchangeMontefiore Einstein's living-donor page says its program takes part in kidney-paired exchange through the National Kidney Registry for donors who are healthy but incompatible with their intended recipient, and that part of the evaluation can be done remotely for candidates living far away.
Mount Sinai Medical Center
New York, NY
NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchange · not yet verifiedMount Sinai's living-donor page says the Zweig Family Center for Living Donation, within the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute, supports living donors, transplant recipients, and their families.
NY Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia Univ. Medical Center
New York, NY
NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchangeColumbia's living-donor program page describes paired donor exchange, or a kidney swap, as a strategy that pairs incompatible donors with compatible recipients across programs, hospitals, and even regions.
NYU Langone Health
New York, NY
NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchange · not yet verifiedNYU Langone's living-donor page describes paired kidney exchange as an option that pairs incompatible donor-recipient pairs together for transplant.
New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center
New York, NY
NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchangeWeill Cornell's kidney paired donation page says the program is a founding member of the National Kidney Registry, in partnership with NewYork-Presbyterian, connecting incompatible donor-recipient pairs with other pairs.
North Shore University Hospital/Northwell Health
Manhasset, NY
NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchange · not yet verifiedNorthwell's kidney transplant page says a living donor ambassador guides patients through the process of finding a living donor.
State University of New York Upstate Medical University
Syracuse, NY
NLDAC financial assistancePaired exchange · not yet verifiedSUNY Upstate's living organ donation page says a compatible blood type is not required for donation because kidney swaps can be arranged, and names the National Living Donor Assistance Center as a resource for donor travel and other funds.
State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center
Brooklyn, NY
NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchange · not yet verifiedSUNY Downstate's donor page says a member of the donor team reviews a candidate's medical history and connects them with an independent living donor advocate as part of the initial screening.
Strong Memorial Hospital, University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, NY
NLDAC financial assistancePaired exchange · not yet verifiedURMC's living-donor page says the program partners with national organizations, naming the National Living Donor Assistance Center, to help donors apply for financial assistance toward the costs of donation.
University Hospital of State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY
NLDAC financial assistancePaired exchangeStony Brook's living-donor page says the program has partnered with UNOS's Kidney Paired Donation program to help patients whose designated donor is incompatible receive a kidney.
Westchester Medical Center
Valhalla, NY
NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchange · not yet verifiedWestchester Medical Center's kidney transplant page says its program specializes in living kidney donation to get patients the care they need quickly.
Living donors in New York: grade B
New York 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 New York 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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