Permanent OPTN Fee Authority Act
Sponsored By: Senator Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced
Summary
Permanent fee authority for the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) would let the Department of Health and Human Services charge registration fees tied to each transplant candidate and require a public transplant data dashboard to improve funding and transparency.
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- Families and transplant candidates would get more timely public data on transplant activity. The dashboard would show numbers and types of transplants, organs that entered the system but were not transplanted, and would update more often than annually.
- Transplant centers and other OPTN members would pay a registration fee for each candidate they place on the waiting list. Those fees would be collected for and dedicated to OPTN operations, remain available until spent, and may be distributed to awardees only as authorized in annual appropriations.
- The Secretary could collect fees directly or via awards and must post quarterly on the OPTN website the fees collected from each member and the activities those funds support. The Government Accountability Office would review program activities and report recommendations within two years.
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Fees and transparency for transplant centers
If enacted, the HHS Secretary could charge transplant centers and organ procurement groups a fee for each person they place on the national transplant waiting list. The bill would require those fees to be used only to support the transplant network and would let collected fees remain available until spent. Amounts would be credited to the current HHS account as discretionary offsetting collections and could be paid to network awardees only as Congress provides in appropriations laws. The Secretary would post, and update quarterly, the fees collected from each member and the activities the fees support. The bill would ask the Secretary to consider a public dashboard of transplant statistics, let centers use 24-hour phone or information technology services, and require the Comptroller General to review fee activities and report within two years.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
OR • D
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
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