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 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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

Organ donation leaders and recipients in South Carolina advocate in a leading newspaper for SID&T non-profit system protection and reform.

Philadelphia City Councilwoman Cherelle Parker advocates in a telling op-ed for equity in organ and donation health care, in line with SID&T reform. “This is a matter of life and death here in Philadelphia and across the nation. While many are exhausted by the never-ending headlines about …”

SID&T applauds the Newark NJ City Council for following its lead in urging the U.S. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services and the Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to reconsider the implementation of new rules by the previous Trump Administration, revising the requirement and procedures of the Organ Procurement Organizations, the new rules will make it difficult to facilitate organ transplants that will adversely affect the minority population …

The Philadelphia City Councils unanimously adopts a resolution mirroring SID&T’s advocacy that calls on Secretary Xavier Becerra and the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services to reconsider the implementation of a rule instituted by the prior administration that could upend our nation's system of organ procurement, particularly in communities of color, and to include the vast, specific needs of the organ transplant system in analyzing and improving the metrics …

SID&T lauds the New Jersey General Assembly for passing resolution #212, recognizing SIDT’s advocacy for non-profit organ donation by supporting NJ Sharing Network and opposing new federal rules on organ procurement organizations.