Issue #9 | December 2024

Welcome to the Science in Donation & Transplant Newsletter!

In this issue:

1. CMS OPO Metric Bias Against Large OPOs Research Summary

2. Summary of Recent Johns Hopkins Webinar

3. Kentucky: Science in Donation & Transplant Statement on Coverage of Kentucky Allegations

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

CMS OPO Metric Bias Against Large OPOs Research Summary

Continuing research into the controversial Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) metric for ranking the performance of Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) provides more evidence that unless CMS changes course, the metric will give biased results that will not withstand legal scrutiny …

Tenaya Wallace, donation expert and CEO of Crowd Advocacy, asks the right question on LinkedIn. Read more →

Summary of Recent Johns Hopkins Webinar

The comprehensive and informative Johns Hopkins University webinar featuring a panel of true national experts rose above the misinformation, bad data, and unsupported sensationalism that has marked much of the policy discussion the past four years. It provided a refreshing dose of reality, expert peer-reviewed science, and …

Kentucky: Science in Donation Statement on Recent Allegations

The recent sensational headlines caused by another poorly researched NPR post again highlight that we are sadly experiencing a time when certain influencers are using misinformation and sensationalism to game the organ donation and transplant system …

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