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  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Disparities in Access to the Liver Transplant Wait List: A Statewide Analysis.

    Y. Bababekov, D. Chang, Y.-C. Hung, J. Adler, S. Stapleton, J. Markmann, H. Yeh.

    Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

    Background:Racial disparities in access to the liver transplant wait list for patients with end-stage liver disease (ESLD) are thought to be attributable to differences in…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Unintended Consequence of the New Kidney Allocation System – Disproportionate Allocation of High Quality Kidneys to Highly Sensitized Recipients.

    B. Murthy, N. Galvan, J. Moffett, C. O'Mahony, J. Goss, A. Rana.

    Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

    Purpose: We hypothesize that improving access to highly sensitized candidates in new KAS would compromise the prime objective of matching the best kidney allografts and…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Are ICD-9 V Codes Representative of the Liver Transplant Wait List?

    Y. Bababekov, D. Chang, Y.-C. Hung, J. Adler, S. Stapleton, J. Markmann, H. Yeh.

    Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

    Background: Disparities in liver transplantation once wait listed are well-described, but little is known about how and why only 20% of end-stage liver disease patients…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Reduction in Kidney Offer Acceptance at Centers Undergoing Systems Improvement Agreements.

    M. Bowring, L. Nicholas, A. Massie, D. Segev.

    JHU, Baltimore

    Kidney transplant centers flagged twice by CMS for poor outcomes enter a Systems Improvement Agreement (SIA) if they fail to demonstrate mitigating factors. Motivated to…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Opioid and Opioid Substitution Therapy in Liver Transplant Candidates: A Survey of Center Policies and Practices.

    J. Fleming,1 J. Lai,3 H. Te,2 A. Said,4 E. Spengler,4 S. Rogal.5

    1MUSC, Charleston, SC; 2UCSF, San Francisco, CA; 3UCMC, Chicago, IL; 4UWSMPH and VA, Madison, WI; 5Pittsburgh VA, Pittsburgh, PA

    Background: Chronic opioid use for pain and opioid substitution therapy (OST) are common among patients with cirrhosis. Little is known of transplant center policies and…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Transplant Economics Post Implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the Budget Control Act Sequestration Adjustment on Medicare Reimbursement.

    E. Zavala,1 J. Rogers,2 R. Howey,3 S. Karp.1

    1VUMC, Nashville; 2Tx Mgmt Group, San Diego; 3Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville

    Purpose: Adjustments in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 and sequestration from the Budget Control Act (BCA) of 2011 have impacted Medicare reimbursement for…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Potential Barriers Hindering Non-Directed (Altruistic) Living Kidney Donors from Donating Their Kidneys.

    A. Maghen,1 L. Kwan,1 G. Vargas,1 S. Connor,1 S. Nassiri,1 E. Hicks,2 S. Maliski,3 J. Veale.

    1Urology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; 2Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR; 3University of Kansas Medical Center School of Nursing, Kansas City, KS

    A. While non-directed kidney donation in the United States is a growing concept that demonstrates the next level of altruism in the U.S., there are…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    The Impact of the New Kidney Allocation System on Length of Dialysis Prior to Transplantation.

    T. Melanson,1 M. Basu,1 L. Plantinga,1 S. Pastan,1 S. Mohan,2 R. Patzer.1

    1Emory University, Atlanta; 2Columbia University, New York

    Introduction: The Kidney Allocation System (KAS) changed the starting point for calculating waiting time for patients on the kidney transplant (KTx) waitlist from the time…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Commonly Expressed Living Donation Fears and Concerns by Non-Directed (Altruistic) Living Kidney Donors in the United States.

    A. Maghen,1 G. Vargas,1 S. Connor,1 S. Nassiri,1 E. Hicks,2 L. Kwan,1 S. Maliski,3 J. Veale.1

    1Urology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; 2Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR; 3University of Kansas Medical Center School of Nursing, Kansas City, KS

    A. In the United States, many factors, including lack of awareness and misconceptions about living kidney transplantation, create challenges that limit increasing the live kidney…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    A New Methodology for Measuring and Monitoring Equity in Access to Deceased Donor Kidney Transplants.

    D. Stewart, A. Wilk, W. Cherikh, A. Harper, R. Urban, D. Klassen, E. Edwards.

    United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA

    Background: The OPTN monitors progress on increasing the number of transplants, improving patient outcomes, and other goals. However, a well-established methodology for assessing system performance…
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