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01/07/2025

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Coordination between OPO's and transplant centers saves lives. Science in Donation and Transplant is fighting against the privatization of the organ donation system.

27/06/2025

Thanks to SID&T, OMB knows that CMS continues to ignore the NASEM report signed into being in the first Trump Administration.

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https://sidandt.org/office-of-management-and-budget-sidt-submission

Coordination between OPO's and transplant centers saves lives. Science in Donation and Transplant is fighting against the privatization of the organ donation system.

24/06/2025

The risk of Congressional ignorance and inaction is the abrogation of its responsibilities to the Federal courts, who will surely intervene when inappropriate OPO decertification begins in 2026.

Read our submission to the Ways and Means Committee:
https://sidandt.org/ways-and-means-sidt-rfi-response-submission

Coordination between OPO's and transplant centers saves lives. Science in Donation and Transplant is fighting against the privatization of the organ donation system.

19/06/2025

SID&T noted to OMB that since adopting the flawed governing rule, twenty independent peer-reviewed studies have delineated the fatal flaws in CMS's regulation of OPOs.

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https://sidandt.org/office-of-management-and-budget-sidt-submission

Coordination between OPO's and transplant centers saves lives. Science in Donation and Transplant is fighting against the privatization of the organ donation system.

17/06/2025

SID&T notes with some alarm that the Ways and Means Committee's seemingly justifying footnotes for their request (RFI) parrot past Administration misinformation and sponsored content, so-called research, funded by special interest and campaign bundler sources.

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https://sidandt.org/ways-and-means-sidt-rfi-response-submission

Coordination between OPO's and transplant centers saves lives. Science in Donation and Transplant is fighting against the privatization of the organ donation system.

12/06/2025

We informed OMB--There is a documented poor historical record of regulatory overreach and abject failure of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to manage and evaluate the Organ Procurement Organization system.

Read our letter:
https://sidandt.org/office-of-management-and-budget-sidt-submission

Coordination between OPO's and transplant centers saves lives. Science in Donation and Transplant is fighting against the privatization of the organ donation system.

10/06/2025

It is time for Congress to set aside special interests, venture capitalists and sensationalism and respect expectant recipients and donor families. See our challenge to the Ways and Means Committee.

Read our letter to Congress:
https://sidandt.org/ways-and-means-sidt-rfi-response-submission

Coordination between OPO's and transplant centers saves lives. Science in Donation and Transplant is fighting against the privatization of the organ donation system.

05/06/2025

The federal Office of Management and Budget recently requested input on federal agency regulations that should be rescinded. Few qualify more obviously on: scientific, medical, practical and perhaps constitutional grounds, than CMS’ governing rule on organ donation.

See our filing:
https://sidandt.org/office-of-management-and-budget-sidt-submission

Coordination between OPO's and transplant centers saves lives. Science in Donation and Transplant is fighting against the privatization of the organ donation system.

03/06/2025

Science in Donation & Transplant recently challenged the House Ways and Means Committee - to question, confront and fix the real issue facing organ donation and transplant: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services history of failure. Here are the 4 right questions:

Read our full letter:
https://sidandt.org/ways-and-means-sidt-rfi-response-submission

Coordination between OPO's and transplant centers saves lives. Science in Donation and Transplant is fighting against the privatization of the organ donation system.

29/05/2025

SID&T applauds Alexandra K Glazier, President & CEO, New England Donor Services, for her spot on rebuttal published in the UC Davis Law Review in April of 2025, Facts from the Frontline: A Response to "Inequitable Organ Allocation", correctly challenging the previous troubling and biased pseudo-science article.

Read the full article:

https://sidandt.org/facts-from-the-frontline-a-response-to-inequitable-organ-allocation

Coordination between OPO's and transplant centers saves lives. Science in Donation and Transplant is fighting against the privatization of the organ donation system.

22/05/2025

Anthony Watkins, MD, Surgical Director of Kidney & Pancreas Transplant Program and Associate Professor of Surgery at the national leader, Tampa General Hospital Transplant Institute, notes the system is headed for chaos under the current Federal policy.

Read the full article in the Tampa Bay Times:
https://sidandt.org/news/latest-news/a-wrong-fix-for-tampa

Coordination between OPO's and transplant centers saves lives. Science in Donation and Transplant is fighting against the privatization of the organ donation system.

20/05/2025

Anthony Watkins, MD, Surgical Director of Kidney & Pancreas Transplant Program and Associate Professor of Surgery at the national leader, Tampa General Hospital Transplant Institute, calls for CMS to adopt a rule that promotes donation and transplant collaboration.

See full article in the Tampa Bay Times:
https://sidandt.org/news/latest-news/a-wrong-fix-for-tampa

Coordination between OPO's and transplant centers saves lives. Science in Donation and Transplant is fighting against the privatization of the organ donation system.

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