by Sean Fitzpatrick | Jun 3, 2025 | News
On the Friday afternoon before the Memorial Day weekend, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued their Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) Public Aggregated Performance 2024 and 2025 Reports for data years 2022 and 2023, and, yes, CMS data lags...
by Sean Fitzpatrick | Mar 13, 2025 | News
The need for life-saving organ transplants is high in this nation’s Black communities. When compared to communities of other ethnicities and races, Blacks are disproportionately affected by the health burdens and diseases that lead to organ failure and result in the...
by Sean Fitzpatrick | Jan 8, 2025 | Press
Despite fourteen consecutive years of record US growth in deceased organ donation and world leading transplant rates, there is nonetheless a cottage industry of critics seeking to distort these gains to paint a picture of a US system that never increases donation and...
by Sean Fitzpatrick | Dec 9, 2024 | Peer Reviewed Study
Would you be surprised to learn that the green line above is an OPO projected to be CMS Tier 2 and the red line is an OPO projected to be CMS Tier 1? This makes no sense! Well, a newly published peer-reviewed study identifies a substantial statistical methodology...
by Sean Fitzpatrick | Nov 5, 2024 | Debunking Myths, News
A recently published peer-reviewed article in Critical Care Medicine, a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, found major that Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) approached families for organ donation at the same rates, regardless of race or ethnicity....
