Missouri Hospital Association: Law/Regulations

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently published new conditions of participation for transplant centers in the March 30 Federal Register.

Under this final rule, effective June 28, hospitals must conform to new requirements when applying for Medicare certification of their renal and extra-renal transplant center programs. Previously, these programs have been governed by criteria published in “National Coverage Decisions” and related materials. Extra-renal transplant centers that are Medicare-approved as of June 28 will continue to be governed by the NCD criteria until they apply for and receive a survey under the criteria for the final rule.

Effective immediately, extra-renal transplant centers that seek to participate in the Medicare program and have not filed an application for Medicare payment approval must apply under the criteria contained in the final rule. The CMS will no longer accept extra-renal transplant center applications under the NCD process. However, the CMS will continue processing applications already in progress.

The CMS also will continue accepting applications from pediatric centers that seek Medicare payment approval based on their association with a Medicare-approved adult transplant center if the applications are received by June 22.

Mid-America Transplant Services is a community-based, not-for-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the quality of human life. MTS coordinates the procurement of vital organs, tissues and eyes in hospitals throughout eastern and southern Missouri, southern Illinois and northeastern Arkansas.

The Midwest Transplant Network provides quality transplantation-related services that maximize the availability of organs and tissues to communities throughout Kansas and western Missouri.

The American Society of Transplantation is an organization of more then 2,000 transplant professionals dedicated to research, education, advocacy and patient care in transplantation.

The Coalition on Donation is a not-for-profit alliance of national organizations and local coalitions across the United States dedicated to inspiring all people to donate life through organ and tissue donation.

The "Gift of Life" Organ Donation Initiative is a program from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The Missouri Organ Donor Registry is a statewide voluntary, confidential, registry of potential organ and tissue donors that was established by legislation in 1996. Upon the time of your death, only authorized hospital personnel can access the registry to determine if you wanted to be an organ and tissue donor.

The National Donor Family Council is the largest organized group of donor families in the world, representing donors of all organs and tissues. The council supports the needs and expectations of donor families and assists health care professionals who work most closely with these families.

The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network is the unified transplant network established under the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984. The OPTN's primary goals are to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of organ sharing and equity in the national system of organ allocation and to increase the supply of donated organs available for transplantation.

TransWeb: All About Transplantation and Donation is a nonprofit educational Web site serving the world transplant community.

The United Network for Organ Sharing is a nonprofit, scientific and educational organization that administers the nation's only Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. UNOS' mission is to to advance organ availability and transplantation by uniting and supporting our communities for the benefit of patients through education, technology and policy development.

The American Association of Blood Banks is an international association of blood banks, including hospital and community blood centers, transfusion and transplantation services, and individuals involved in activities related to transfusion and transplantation medicine.

The American Association of Tissue Banks is a scientific, not-for-profit, peer-group organization that facilitates the provision of transplantable cells and tissues of uniform high quality in quantities sufficient to meet national needs.

The American Society of Transplantation is an organization of more then 2,000 transplant professionals dedicated to research, education, advocacy and patient care in transplantation.

The Muskuloskeletal Transplant Foundation is a nonprofit service organization dedicated to providing quality tissue through a commitment to excellence in education, research, recovery and care for recipients, donors and their families.

TransWeb: All About Transplantation and Donation is a nonprofit educational Web site serving the world transplant community.

Eye Donation/Transplantation
The American Society of Transplantation is an organization of more then 2,000 transplant professionals dedicated to research, education, advocacy and patient care in transplantation.

The Eye Bank Association of America's mission is the restoration of sight through the promotion and advancement of eye banking. It is the oldest national association of transplantation organizations in the United States.

The main purpose of Heartland Lions Eye Banks is to retrieve, process and distribute the highest quality donor eye tissue to corneal surgeons and vision researchers.

The Missouri Lions Eye Research Foundation is dedicated to the preservation and restoration of sight, to finding the causes and cures of blinding eye diseases through scientific research and making sight restoration possible through eye banking.

The mission of the American Bone Marrow Donor Registry is to educate and recruit an adequate, viable source of well-informed potential marrow donors and effectively maintain the associated donor records.

The American Society of Transplantation is an organization of more then 2,000 transplant professionals dedicated to research, education, advocacy and patient care in transplantation.

The Blood & Marrow Transplant Information Network is a not-for-profit organization dedicated exclusively to serving the needs of persons facing a bone marrow, blood stem cell or umbilical cord blood transplant.

The Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide is a voluntary, collaborative effort of bone marrow donor registries and cord blood banks with the goal to provide centralized and anonymous information on the HLA phenotypes and other relevant data of unrelated bone marrow donors.

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society is the world's largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research, education and patient services. The society's mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, as well as to improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

The National Marrow Donor Program is a nonprofit organization that facilitates lifesaving blood stem cell transplants for patients who do not have a donor in their family. The program works to increase access to transplantation through research, advocacy, and public and professional education.