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Vital News Updates
Science in Donation & Transplant continues to produce the irrefutable evidence to combat the misinformation marking both media reports and Congressional hearings on organ donation and transplant.
Special interests fighting to break apart the organ procurement system are using their resources in a shockingly well-orchestrated and expensive smear campaign about organ procurement organizations (OPOs.)
To date Congress has not heard from the unbiased, fact-based experts who can help them reform the system to the benefit of patients as well as respect the gift of life from donor families.
SID&T again steps up. Read our Congressional outreach and the essays from America’s top transplant surgeons.
Congress and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Misled on Organ Donation and Transplant
To the great detriment of over 100,000 patients on the organ transplant waiting list, a Congressional committee has once again held a hearing, ignoring evidence-based, peer-reviewed lifesaving science. False narratives are misleading policy makers.
Bringing Integrity to Organ Donation and Transplant Oversight
The Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kennedy and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Oz with their dramatic decertification of the Miami organ procurement organization demonstrate that the previous disjointed approach to federal oversight of the system of past years will no longer be acceptable …
SID&T Submits Two Testimonies to the Committee on Ways and Means
Science in Donation & Transplant (SID&T) appreciates the Committee’s interest in safeguarding the integrity of the U.S. organ donation and transplant system. Our mission is to ensure that federal policy in this field is grounded in …
A Commentary by Matthew Cooper, MD, Renowned Transplant Surgeon
The Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kennedy and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Oz with their dramatic decertification of the Miami organ procurement organization demonstrate that the previous disjointed approach to federal oversight of the system of past years will no longer be acceptable …
A Wrong Fix for Tampa and the Nation’s Organ Transplant System
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
Wilmington City Council Resolution No. 212
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this Council encourages the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to give full consideration to the guidance set forth by the 2022 National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine …