OPTN News

Offer Filters expanding to lung, liver and heart in 2024.
The OPTN Expeditious Task Force embarks on ambitious project to save more lives, increase efficiency.
Input received from patients and transplant professionals during the winter 2024 public comment period will inform future policy development.
The OPTN is offering 11 items for review, including one proposal, one guidance documents, two request for feedback, three data collections, and four policy proposals.
All 230 active kidney programs attest to completing eGFR waiting time modifications policy requirements.
More than 46,000 total transplants performed.
Process for reporting enhanced, clarified.
The OPTN seeks feedback on the “Expedited Placement Variance,” which proposes expedited organ placement and seeks more rapid studies of potential improvement.
Newly elected members will begin their terms in July 2024.
Early monitoring shows no substantial increases in the percentage of donors being biopsied after this policy change.