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Dept/ Agency: Offices of Municipal Council/City Clerk
Action: ( ) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: Resolution Urging the United States Congress to act
Purpose: Urging the U.S. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services and the Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to reconsider the implementation of new rules by the previous Trump Administration, revising the requirement and procedures of the Organ Procurement Organizations, the new rules will make it difficult to facilitate organ transplants that will adversely affect the minority population.
Sponsor(s): Council Member, C. Lawrence Crump
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WHEREAS, Organ donation and transplantation are an important component of the U. S. healthcare system, providing the opportunity for patients experiencing potentially fatal organ disease to continue to live full, satisfying, high-quality lives; and
WHEREAS, in 2020, the Trump Administration revised previous rules and policies established by Congress IN 1984, with the creation of Organ Procurement Organizations (OPO), under the National Organ Transplant Act, to facilitate the national organ procurement and transplantation process; and
WHEREAS, the Trump Administration's "the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020", was to ostensibly establish new rules for the distribution of organ transplants by increasing competition amongst OPO's 'to increase donation rates and organ transplantation rates by replacing the current outcome measures with new transparent, reliable and objective outcome measures and increasing competition for open donation services areas (DSAs); and
WHEREAS, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM), was requested by Congress to conduct a study to review the fairness, equity, transparency, and cost effectiveness in the system of procuring, allocating, and distributing d...
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