What’s happening: CHA submitted comments in response to the proposed Increasing Organ Transplant Access (IOTA) Model, which aims to improve access to kidney transplants.
What else to know: CHA raised significant concerns about the model and requested it be made voluntary.
In the letter, CHA raised significant concerns that the proposed IOTA Model:
- Interferes with transplant surgeon and transplant nephrologist judgment
- Imposes unrealistic volume increase performance expectations
- Potentially reduces excised organs
- Creates duplicative administrative requirements
- Provides insufficient time to prepare
CHA thanks members for their feedback, which helped inform comments. Comments were due to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on July 16.
