Fierce Healthcare July 18, 2024
The hospital industry is warning that a proposed mandatory model for kidney transplants could introduce “unnecessary disruption and uncertainty to the transplant ecosystem” and ultimately undercut the administration’s goal of greater access.
The Increasing Organ Transplant Access (IOTA) Model, proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in May, is a six-year model tentatively slated to kick off on Jan. 1, 2025.
CMS said its approach incentivizes a streamlined kidney transplant process by measuring participating hospitals by transplant quantity, organ acceptance rates and post-transplant outcomes. The proposed model also includes a health equity performance adjustment and requires hospitals to create health equity plans to identify and address gaps among their patient populations.
Per CMS’ May estimate, 90 of...
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