Permanent Funding and Increased Transparency for the National Organ Transplant Network.
This law establishes a permanent funding authority for the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) by allowing the collection of registration fees from member institutions for each transplant candidate. It also mandates financial transparency regarding these fees and suggests considering the establishment of a dashboard to display transplant statistics.
Key points
Authorization to collect registration fees from network members for each candidate placed on the transplant waiting list.
Provision to consider establishing a dashboard showing statistics on transplants performed and organs not used.
Requirement to modernize OPTN communication services to include information technology and to publicly post fee collection data.
Introduced
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