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Some 50,000 organs are transplanted in the United States each year, but only a few thousand people are able to get a heart. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Statistics , Healthcare , Organ Donation

Simplified: Approximately 50,000 organs are transplanted annually in the United States, but only a few thousand of these are hearts.

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2 weeks ago
They [The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services] recently did so [closed a procurement organization] in South Florida and have moved to do so in Kentucky. 1.000

👤 Greg Segal 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health , Government , Law , Organ Donation

Simplified: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently closed an organ procurement organization in South Florida and has moved to do so in Kentucky.

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3 weeks ago
more than a dozen procurement organizations have gone to court to shut down [the 2020 performance rules]. 1.000

👤 Greg Segal 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health , Law , Organ Donation

Simplified: More than a dozen organ procurement organizations have gone to court to shut down the 2020 performance rules.

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3 weeks ago
The organization serving New Jersey faces alarming allegations and should be next. 0.900

👤 Greg Segal 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health , Law , Organ Donation

Simplified: The organ procurement organization serving New Jersey is facing allegations.

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3 weeks ago
The organizations have lobbied to weaken these standards, arguing that pressure to recover more organs pushes them to be overly aggressive in harvesting organs and threatens patient safety. 0.950

👤 Greg Segal 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health , Lobbying , Organ Donation

Simplified: Organ procurement organizations have lobbied to weaken accountability standards.

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3 weeks ago
The reforms have worked, helping drive a 25 percent increase in transplants. 1.000

👤 Greg Segal 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health , Statistics , Organ Donation

Simplified: Reforms to organ procurement rules have helped drive a 25 percent increase in transplants.

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3 weeks ago
patients like my aunt died for lack of available organs for transplant. 0.850

👤 Greg Segal 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health , Organ Donation

Simplified: The author's aunt died due to a lack of available organs for transplant.

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3 weeks ago
Historically, there were few consequences for their poor performance, which meant they left thousands of lifesaving organs unrecovered. 0.800

👤 Greg Segal 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health , Organ Donation

Simplified: Historically, organ procurement organizations left thousands of lifesaving organs unrecovered due to a lack of consequences for poor performance.

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3 weeks ago
They also often prioritized the recovery of skin, tissue, bone and corneas, which can be far more lucrative than organs. 0.900

👤 Greg Segal 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health , Business , Organ Donation

Simplified: Organ procurement organizations often prioritized recovering more lucrative materials like skin, tissue, bone, and corneas over organs.

1 sources

3 weeks ago
In 2020, the federal government strengthened rules to hold procurement organizations more accountable; for the first time, poor performance could cost them their government contracts. 1.000

👤 Greg Segal 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health , Government , Law , Organ Donation

Simplified: In 2020, the federal government strengthened rules, allowing organ procurement organizations to lose their government contracts for poor performance f...

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3 weeks ago
But a federal investigation found that firewall is often ignored. 1.000

👤 A federal investigation (via Greg Segal) 📋 News Article 🏷️ Regulation , Organ Donation , Investigations

Simplified: A federal investigation found that the required procedural separation between treating physicians and organ donation teams is often ignored.

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3 weeks ago
Investigators have documented procurement organizations’ retaliating against whistle-blowers, withholding documents from federal investigators, manipulating medical records and engaging in fraud. 1.000

👤 Investigators (via Greg Segal) 📋 News Article 🏷️ Legal , Organ Donation , Investigations

Simplified: Investigators have documented that organ procurement organizations retaliated against whistle-blowers, withheld documents from federal investigators,...

1 sources

3 weeks ago
And The New York Times reported that health care workers in several states said they had witnessed procurement staff members “persuading hospital clinicians to administer morphine, propofol and other... 1.000

👤 The New York Times (via Greg Segal) 📋 News Article 🏷️ Allegations , Organ Donation , Medical Ethics

Simplified: The New York Times reported that healthcare workers in several states witnessed organ procurement staff persuading clinicians to administer drugs to h...

1 sources

3 weeks ago
Many of these cases have been documented by federal authorities and are under investigation by state and federal law enforcement. 1.000

👤 Greg Segal 📋 News Article 🏷️ Legal , Organ Donation , Investigations

Simplified: Many cases of misconduct by organ procurement organizations have been documented by federal authorities and are under investigation by law enforcement...

1 sources

3 weeks ago
A former Obama White House official testified before Congress that she had heard directly from whistle-blowers at procurement organizations that they were trained to target inexperienced physicians, e... 1.000

👤 A former Obama White House official (via Greg Segal) 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Allegations , Organ Donation

Simplified: A former Obama White House official testified to Congress that whistle-blowers from procurement organizations said they were trained to target inexper...

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3 weeks ago
Whistle-blowers say procurement executives called their staff member on-site at the hospital and demanded she find another surgeon to take the organs. 1.000

👤 Whistle-blowers (via Greg Segal) 📋 News Article 🏷️ Allegations , Organ Donation , Medical Ethics

Simplified: Whistle-blowers allege that organ procurement executives demanded staff find a different surgeon to take Anthony Thomas Hoover II's organs after the f...

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3 weeks ago
I founded Organize, a nonprofit making it easier to register to become an organ donor. 1.000

👤 Greg Segal 📋 News Article 🏷️ Organizations , Organ Donation

Simplified: The author, Greg Segal, founded the nonprofit Organize to make organ donor registration easier.

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3 weeks ago
While being evaluated for donation, Mr. Hoover opened his eyes and thrashed on the bed. ... Hours later, he awoke again and moved his toes on command... In the operating room, Mr. Hoover pulled his kn... 1.000

👤 Greg Segal 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health , Organ Donation , Medical Ethics

Simplified: Anthony Thomas Hoover II, while being evaluated for organ donation after being declared brain-dead, showed signs of life including opening his eyes, m...

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3 weeks ago
He received his transplant on Feb. 10, 2009. 1.000

👤 Greg Segal 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health , Organ Donation

Simplified: The author's father received a heart transplant on February 10, 2009.

1 sources

3 weeks ago
Abadie A., Gay S. (2006). The impact of presumed consent legislation on cadaveric organ donation: A cross-country study. Journal of Health Economics, 25, 599–620. 1.000

👤 Angela L. Duckworth, Katherine L. Milkman, and David Laibson 📋 Scientific Article 🏷️ Legislation , Health Economics , Organ Donation

Simplified: A. Abadie and S. Gay published a study on presumed consent legislation and organ donation in the Journal of Health Economics in 2006.

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3 weeks ago