Issue #10 | January 2025

Welcome to the Science in Donation & Transplant Newsletter!

In this issue:

1. The Repetitive History of CMS Failing Patients and Donors with Flawed Performance Metrics for Organ Procurement Organizations

2. HRSA Continues Its Heavy Hand of Censorship

3. Join Science in Donation & Transplant on Your Favorite Social Media Platform

The Repetitive History of CMS Failing Patients and Donors with Flawed Performance Metrics for Organ Procurement Organizations

Over the fifty plus year history of Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) in the United States, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has empirically and repeatedly failed to develop and adopt a reliable and comprehensive assessment of their relative performance.

HRSA Continues Its Heavy Hand of Censorship

The frustrating history of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) failure to establish reliable performance metrics for Organ Procurement Organizations persists today, as SID&T has learned about a federal agency threatening a health research firm that was contracted to work with OPOs to develop an unbiased and accurate alternative to CMS’ latest flawed rule.

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Science in Donation and Transplant is a non-profit established in November 2020 devoted to improving OPOs performance and placing patient results above politics.

Our goal is to ensure that the metrics and measures used to credential, license, designate and certify donation and transplant organizations are grounded in science and protected from political whim and private financial influence.

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