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Expanding access to transplant could be accomplished by allowing more patients to join the waiting list or by increasing organ supply.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Objective<\/jats:title>To estimate how these interventions could affect transplant wait times.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Design, Setting, and Participants<\/jats:title>This decision-analytic study used a Markov model with a simulated cohort of transplant-eligible US patients over 10 years (2022-2032).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Exposures<\/jats:title>Three expansion strategies: waiting list expansion alone, waiting list expansion with deceased-donor transplant (DDT) expansion, and waiting list expansion with living-donor transplant (LDT) expansion. Relative 10%, 25%, 50%, and 100% expansions of the current deceased-donor organ supply and 25%, 50%, 100%, and 200% expansions of current living donation rates were simulated, modeling 2 degrees of waiting list expansion (10% and 50%) for each strategy.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Main Outcomes and Measures<\/jats:title>Median wait time to kidney transplant using Kaplan-Meier survival analysis.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Results<\/jats:title>There were a total of 662\u202f190 transplant-eligible patients in the simulated cohort, with a mean (SD) age of 58.7 (14.7) years; 327\u202f126 (49%) female individuals; and 269\u202f082 (41%) Black, 163\u202f028 (25%) Hispanic, 233\u202f739 (35%) non-Hispanic White, and 78\u202f496 (12%) Asian individuals and individuals with another race or ethnicity. Under the baseline strategy, median (IQR) wait time was 32.8 (13.1-66.4) months and increased to 36.8 (14.7-74.7) months and 52.6 (21.0-107.9) months for 10% and 50% waiting list expansion alone. DDT and LDT expansion strategies added 1911 to 20\u202f035 organs. For 10% waiting list expansion, median (IQR) wait times ranged from 23.7 (9.3-47.8) months to 34.5 (13.9-74.7) months. For 50% waiting list expansion, median (IQR) wait times ranged from 34.2 (13.6-69.4) months to 49.4 (19.7-101.0) months.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Conclusions and Relevance<\/jats:title>In this decision-analytic model, expansion strategies without additional organ supply increased the median time to kidney transplant by nearly 2 years; 10% waiting list expansion required at least 2850 additional organs to shorten wait times. However, 50% waiting list expansion required at least 11\u202f000 additional organs to approximate current wait times. Reduction in the deceased-donor organ nonuse rate alone is unlikely to meet the shortfall. 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