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CMS’ Flawed Rule Threatens The Nation’s Non-Profit Organ Donation System

The United States has the most successful and sophisticated organ donation and transplant system in the world, yet, inexplicably, federal lawmakers have failed to take action to protect it from profit seeking special interests that are working behind the scenes to dismantle it. 

Congress and government bureaucrats have consistently ignored the federally mandated landmark study by NASEM. CMS has offered no guidelines for what happens when they shut designated service areas. It is time for Congress to act.

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Science in Donation & Transplant is the leading voice calling for Federal legislation to address the dangerous shortcomings in the Rule before it is too late. True alignment in the system will bring out the best in OPOs, transplant centers and all parties in the donation/transplant ecosystem. We are talking about a system that leads the world and needs to be nurtured by science and best practices, not destroyed by politics.

The greater New York metropolitan area, southern California, Miami-Dade, Houston, Phoenix, New Orleans, Minneapolis, the plains states and the southeast all face the same uncertainty in this unimaginable scenario. Stay on our site and find peer-reviewed science-based reform, testimony from experts, independent research that backs reform, and a timeline of CMS management failures.