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Those fighting to break apart the organ procurement system are using their media resources in a shockingly well-orchestrated and expensive smear campaign about organ procurement organizations (OPOs.) This campaign is being conducted by vested interests, and, targeted to dismantle the current locally-based, voluntary organ donation system and the national allocation system. Congress historically has ensured that money and connections do not determine who shepherds the life-saving gifts of organs in this country; however, that may be changing.
Troubling New Rules for Organ Donation
A recent front-page story in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette concerns new rules for organ procuring organizations (OPOs) finalized recently by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services …
Coalition Launches to Keep Politics Out of Organ Donations
A coalition of organ donation professionals, physicians, recipients, and donor families have banded together to knock back a Trump-era attempt to inject profit and politics into what most experts consider to be the world’s best organ donation system …
New Regulations for Organ Procurement Organizations Pose Concerns
The United States has one of the highest organ donation and transplant rates in the world. A poorly crafted regulatory change could disrupt our world-leading system and put patients at risk. Recently, new performance regulations for organ procurement organizations (OPOs) were promulgated by CMS in the last stretch of the Trump Administration …
For the Poor and Disenfranchised, Higher Hurdles to Transplants
David White was first evaluated for a kidney transplant in 2011, but it would be four years before he got the call that his turn had come. In between undergoing various forms of dialysis to do the job his kidneys couldn’t and attending …
CMS’s New Rules on Organ Donation and Transplantation ‘Will Bring Chaos’
The United States had a once-in-a-generation opportunity to save countless additional lives each year by enacting smart reform of the federal regulations that govern organ donation and transplantation. Unfortunately, final federal regulations the Trump administration published late Friday squandered that …
After 4 Years of Trump, Medicare and Medicaid Badly Need Attention
President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to “marshal the forces of science” in his administration. Undoubtedly he needs to start by bolstering the credibility of the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …