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FY 2027 IPPS Proposed Rule – Changes to Organ Acquisition and Reasonable Cost Payment Policies

On April 14, 2026, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published the fiscal year (FY) 2027 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) proposed rule (the “Prop...

CMS finalizes changes to Increasing Organ Transplant Access Model 

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services May 28 issued a final rule making changes to the Increasing Organ Transplant Access Model beginning July 1. IOTA is a six-year...

South Florida Donor Network Launches Operations, Advancing Organ Donation and Transplant Outcomes Across South Florida a...

Backed by decades of experience and a proven national partner, SFDN is positioned to strengthen donation and transplant outcomes across one of the nation's most diverse communities...

Global Experts Investigate Criteria Behind National Heart Transplant Decisions

As the demand for heart transplants relentlessly outpaces the supply of donor organs, the global medical community faces a profound ethical and clinical dilemma: how to allocate th...

HHS-OIG Advisory Opinion 26-08- Cochlear Implant Center’s Lease Arrangements Clear OIG Scrutiny

AlloDirect Launches First Direct-to-Tissue-Bank Biologics Marketplace for Orthopedic Surgeons, ASCs, and Practices

New platform eliminates distributors from the...

NASA, Organ Sharing Network UNOS to Study Faster Organ Transport

Every second counts in the life-saving world of medical transplants. To help address that urgency, NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, is teaming up with the Unite...

Mid-America Transplant Opens 160-Mile Drone Corridor for Organ Donation

Mid-America Transplant has become the first organ procurement organization (OPO) in the United States to use drones for donor blood sample transport. The organization opened a dedi...

Christopher Johnson: Federal organ donor ‘reforms’ are counterproductive

There are numerous flaws in the CMS analysis, but the most serious flaw is use of national and state death certificate data to determine OPO donor potential.

Public Procurement Service deepens cooperation with IDB to support reform in Latin America

Korea’s Public Procurement Service (PPS) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) have renewed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) aimed at deepening cooperation in public pro...