Organ procurement and transplantation network

The Secretary shall provide for the continued operation of an Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network which meets the requirements of subsection (b). The Secretary may award grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements, as the Secretary determines appropriate, for purposes of carrying out this section. be operated through awards to public or private entities made by the Secretary that are distinct from the awards made to support the organization tasked with supporting the board of directors described in subparagraph (B); and that includes representatives of organ procurement organizations (including organizations that have received grants under section 273 of this title), transplant centers, voluntary health associations, and the general public; and that shall establish an executive committee and other committees, whose chairpersons shall be selected to ensure continuity of leadership for the board. a national list of individuals who need organs, and a national system, through the use of computers and in accordance with established medical criteria, to match organs and individuals included in the list, especially individuals whose immune system makes it difficult for them to receive organs, establish membership criteria and medical criteria for allocating organs and provide to members of the public an opportunity to comment with respect to such criteria, maintain a twenty-four-hour telephone service to facilitate matching organs with individuals included in the list, assist organ procurement organizations in the nationwide distribution of organs equitably among transplant patients, adopt and use standards of quality for the acquisition and transportation of donated organs, prepare and distribute, on a regionalized basis (and, to the extent practicable, among regions or on a national basis), samples of blood sera from individuals who are included on the list and whose immune system makes it difficult for them to receive organs, in order to facilitate matching the compatibility of such individuals with organ donors, coordinate, as appropriate, the transportation of organs from organ procurement organizations to transplant centers, provide information to physicians and other health professionals regarding organ donation, collect, analyze, and publish data concerning organ donation and transplants, carry out studies and demonstration projects for the purpose of improving procedures for organ procurement and allocation, work actively to increase the supply of donated organs, submit to the Secretary an annual report containing information on the comparative costs and patient outcomes at each transplant center affiliated with the organ procurement and transplantation network, recognize the differences in health and in organ transplantation issues between children and adults throughout the system and adopt criteria, polices, and procedures that address the unique health care needs of children, carry out studies and demonstration projects for the purpose of improving procedures for organ donation procurement and allocation, including but not limited to projects to examine and attempt to increase transplantation among populations with special needs, including children and individuals who are members of racial or ethnic minority groups, and among populations with limited access to transportation, and provide that for purposes of this paragraph, the term “children” refers to individuals who are under the age of 18. are infected with HIV before receiving such organ; and are participating in clinical research approved by an institutional review board under the criteria, standards, and regulations described in subsections (a) and (b) of section 274f–5 of this title; or if the Secretary has determined under section 274f–5(c) of this title that participation in such clinical research, as a requirement for such transplants, is no longer warranted, are receiving a transplant under the standards and regulations under section 274f–5(c) of this title. receiving from interested persons critical comments relating to the manner in which the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network is carrying out the duties of the Network under subsection (b); and the consideration by the Secretary of such critical comments. the identity of transplant programs that have become inactive or have closed since the heart allocation policy change of 2006; the distance to the next closest operational heart transplant center from such inactivated or closed programs and an evaluation of whether or not access to care has been reduced to the population previously serviced by such inactive or closed program; the number of patients with rural zip codes that received transplants after the heart allocation policy change of 2006 as compared with the number of such patients that received such transplants prior to such heart allocation policy change; a comparison of the number of transplants performed, the mortality rate for individuals on the transplant waiting lists, and the post-transplant survival rate nationally and by region prior to and after the heart allocation policy change of 2006; and specifically with respect to allosensitized patients, a comparison of the number of heart transplants performed, the mortality rate for individuals on the heart transplant waiting lists, and the post heart transplant survival rate nationally and by region prior to and after the heart allocation policy change of 2006. The increase provided for in the amendment made by section 2 [amending this section] shall not apply with respect to contracts entered into under section 372(a) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 274(a)) after the date that is 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act [Oct. 15, 2008] if the Executive Director of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network fails to submit the report under subsection (a).” The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network shall— have a board of directors— The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network shall— establish in one location or through regional centers— In adopting and using standards of quality under paragraph (2)(E), the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network may adopt and use such standards with respect to organs infected with human immunodeficiency virus (in this paragraph referred to as “HIV”), provided that any such standards ensure that organs infected with HIV may be transplanted only into individuals who— The Secretary shall establish procedures for— The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall request that the Executive Director of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network submit to Congress, not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act [Oct. 15, 2008], a report that shall include— (Source: (July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, § 372, as added Pub. L. 98–507, title II, § 201, Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2344; amended Pub. L. 100–607, title IV, § 403, Nov. 4, 1988, 102 Stat. 3115; Pub. L. 101–616, title II, § 202(a)–(c), Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 3283, 3284; Pub. L. 106–310, div. A, title XXI, § 2101(a), Oct. 17, 2000, 114 Stat. 1156; Pub. L. 110–426, § 2, Oct. 15, 2008, 122 Stat. 4835; Pub. L. 113–51, § 2(a)(1), Nov. 21, 2013, 127 Stat. 579; Pub. L. 118–14, § 2, Sept. 22, 2023, 137 Stat. 69.))