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Improvements to MELD, PELD, Status 1A and Status 1B to take effect July 13

Improvements to MELD, PELD, Status 1A and Status 1B to take effect July 13

Jun 28, 2023 | Liver/intestine, News, Policy changes

Educational and resource materials are available to support implementation.

Pre-implementation notice: New transplant performance metric to go into effect July 27

Pre-implementation notice: New transplant performance metric to go into effect July 27

Jun 27, 2023 | News, Policy changes, Transplant hospital

A new risk-adjusted pre-transplant performance monitoring metric – the offer acceptance rate ratio – will take effect July 27, 2023. 

Pre-implementation notice: New transplant performance metric to go into effect July 27

New data fields available June 29 to prepare for simultaneous heart-kidney and lung-kidney allocation

Jun 13, 2023 | Heart/lung, Kidney/pancreas, News, Policy changes

Updating data in advance will ensure candidates get priority when the policy takes effect.

Pre-implementation notice: New transplant performance metric to go into effect July 27

Safety net policies for kidney-after-heart and kidney-after-lung allocation in effect June 29

Jun 13, 2023 | Heart/lung, Kidney/pancreas, News, Policy changes

Candidates who meet criteria will get additional kidney allocation priority.

Updated National Liver Review Board HCC guidance in effect April 28, 2023

Updated National Liver Review Board HCC guidance in effect April 28, 2023

May 2, 2023 | Liver/intestine, News, Policy changes

Clarifications made to diagnostic criteria.

OPTN data collection changes coming Sept. 14

OPTN data collection changes coming Sept. 14

Mar 29, 2023 | News, Policy changes, UNet℠ system changes

On Sept. 14, multiple updates will be made to UNet to implement approved OPTN Policy changes that affect OPTN data collection.

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