Opinion: CMS’s new rules on organ donation and transplantation ‘will bring chaos’
The United States had a once-in-a-generation opportunity to save countless additional lives each year by enacting smart reform of the federal regulations that govern organ donation and transplantation. Unfortunately, final federal regulations the Trump administration published late Friday squandered that opportunity.
As the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services was undertaking a revision of its operational rules and corresponding metrics, U.S. donation and transplant professionals urged it to realign last-century methods now used by key components of the organ donation and transplant system with 21st-century innovations.
