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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.
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 …