Hospitals Cater to ‘Transplant Tourists’ as U.S. Patients Wait for Organs NYT | Top Stories By: Brian M. Rosenthal and Mark Hansen 17 December 2025 at 00:19 International patients can bring a hospital as much as $2 million for a transplant. In recent years, they have typically gotten organs faster than U.S. patients. © Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times