Breaking News: Transplant Patient Request for OPO Metric Fix Letter sent into CMS
Breaking News: Transplant Patient Request for OPO Metric Fix Letter sent into CMS
Today, March 12th, along with other like-minded patient advocacy organizations, and individual patients and advocates, GLI sent in a letter to Administrator Seema Verma of CMS. The letter highlights our nation’s massive transplant waiting list, low organ recovery numbers, and need for change.
There are currently 115,000 people on the waiting list for organ transplants in the United States, and hundreds of thousands more who are likely to need transplants in the near future. We ask CMS to make the positive initial step to remedy this issue by substituting the metrics by which Organ Procurement Organizations are evaluated for a new verifiable metric that is not open to self-reported interpretation.
By making this positive change we expect an increase in the number of organs recovered and a decrease in the number of patients placed on the waiting list.
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