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Axios stated on October 20, 2021
“Lawmakers are worried a new CMS rule aimed at holding organ procurement organizations accountable for the first time will come too late for many Americans.”
It’s not a coincidence that this Axios article is presented with only unnamed sources. No reputable professional would put their name to the erroneous, untrue, or dangerous data or solutions that it offers.
The fact is the vast majority of the nation’s OPOs, all operating under the guiding principle that the delivery of healthcare, including donations and transplants, should be about patients, not profit, are performing more than admirably.
Like any system, there is room for improvement. And the OPOs and Science in Donation and Transplant, along with our partners, are continuing to make the necessary changes to save even more lives.
While the performance of OPOs, along with organ donations and the transplant industry as a whole, continues to improve by any reliable measure, we are going to do even more.
Our solutions won’t cripple the ability to perform organ donations and transplants and won’t cost patients, especially those in minority communities, their lives.
The unnamed sources feeding this narrative of building a better system by closing large swaths of the nation to the gift of life can’t say the same.