What’s happening: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed the new Increasing Organ Transplant Access (IOTA) Model to improve access to kidney transplants.
What else to know: The IOTA Model would be mandatory for six years beginning Jan. 1, 2025.
The model would provide incentives for transplant hospitals to:
- Maximize the use of deceased donor kidneys
- Improve quality of care before, during, and after kidney transplantation
- Create greater equity in access to a kidney transplant by addressing social determinants of health and other barriers to care
- Identify more living donors and assist potential living donors through the donation process
- Improve care coordination and patient-centeredness in the kidney transplant process
Additional information is available in a fact sheet and on the model web page. Comments are due to CMS by July 16.
This content is restricted to members.
