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Articles tagged "Public policy"

  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Early Impact of the Mission Act on Utilization of Veterans Affairs Transplant Centers

    J. C. Walker1, C. Roumie2, I. D. Feurer3, R. Forbes4

    1General Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), Nashville, TN, 2Internal Medicine, VUMC, Nashville, TN, 3Surgery and Biostatistics, VUMC, Nashville, TN, 4VUMC, Nashville, TN

    *Purpose: The Veterans Affairs (VA) Maintaining Systems and Strengthening Integrated Outside Networks (MISSION) Act of 2018 was implemented in 2019 to increase veteran access to…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Patient-Reported Barriers to Living Kidney Donor Follow-Up

    B. Orandi, R. Reed, H. Qu, G. Owens, S. Brooks, C. Killian, V. Kumar, S. Sheikh, R. Cannon, C. Lewis, J. Locke

    University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

    *Purpose: Despite regulations mandating follow-up laboratory testing for living kidney donors, less than half of transplant centers are in compliance. We sought to understand barriers…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    National Trends in Medicare Surgeon Fee Reimbursement for Abdominal Transplant Procedures Over Two Decades

    T. C. Hydrick1, B. Ruch2, J. Wagler2, J. Harbell2, W. Hewitt2, C. Jadlowiec2, N. Katariya2, A. Moss2, M. Nguyen2, K. S. Reddy2, A. Singer2, A. K. Mathur2

    1Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine, Phoenix, AZ, 2Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ

    *Purpose: Reimbursement for surgical procedures has been declining across surgical disciplines. CMS is one of the largest payers for abdominal transplant services, and changes in…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Center Variation is the Major Driver of Geographic Disparities in Access to Kidney Transplants Among Waitlisted Candidates

    D. Stewart, A. Robinson, A. Wilk, D. Klassen

    United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA

    *Purpose: The OPTN’s monitoring of equity in access to deceased donor kidney (KI) transplants (tx) among waitlisted candidates has consistently found service area (DSA) of…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    A Randomized Assessment of a County-Wide, Primary Care Provider (PCP) Office-Based Intervention for Organ Donor Registration

    M. McCabe1, K. M. Dokus2, N. J. Ryan2, A. James2, P. Veazie1, M. Orloff2, S. McIntosh2, R. Kashyap2

    1University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, 2University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY

    *Purpose: The number of individuals awaiting organ transplantation continues to rise steadily, with the current waitlist totaling over 100,000 patients. However, rates of organ donor…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Changes in Health Equity Under Liver Acuity Circles Allocation

    S. Noreen, J. Foutz, A. Henderson, D. Stewart

    United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA

    *Purpose: Acuity circles (AC) allocation was implemented on 2/4/2020 with a goal of removing DSA and region from liver allocation and sharing livers more broadly.…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Center-Level Variation in Transplantation Practice Following Acuity Circles Policy Change

    A. Burton1, D. Goldberg2

    1University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, 2Department of Gastroenterology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL

    *Purpose: Although early studies suggest that the Acuity Circles (AC) allocation policy has reduced disparities in access to deceased donor liver transplants (DDLTs), changes in…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Cognitive Bias in Transplant Surgery: A Qualitative Study of Transplant Clinicians in the United States

    K. Ladin1, J. Perry2, C. Eiduson3

    1REACH Lab, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 2Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 3University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry, Rochester, NY

    *Purpose: Clinicians’ judgments about patients’ social support often affect whether patients are listed for transplantation. Decision-making is thought to be based on two systems of…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Immunotherapy Before Solid Organ Transplantation: An International Transplant Community-Focused Survey

    T. Ivanics1, M. P. Claasen1, D. Al-Adra2, G. Sapisochin3

    1University of Toronto - University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, 3Multi-organ transplant program, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

    *Purpose: The use of immunotherapy for cancer has increased and is expected to continue to grow. The outcomes after solid organ transplantation (SOT) in patients…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Increase in Exception and Extension Requests for Higher-Urgency Patients Under the New Heart Allocation Policy

    J. R. Golbus1, Y. Ahn2, B. K. Nallamothu1, M. N. Walsh3, D. Zaun2, A. Israni2, M. Colvin1

    1University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN, 3Ascension St. Vincent Heart Center, Carmel, IN

    *Purpose: In October 2018, a new heart allocation policy was introduced that expanded the number of listing statuses and established a national review board, abolishing…
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