A bill to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to collect registration fees from members of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network.
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Latest Action · December 5, 2024
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
This bill authorizes the Department of Health and Human Services to collect registration fees from members of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network based on the number of transplant candidates each member places on the national waiting list. The fees collected would be used solely to support the operation of the network and would be treated as discretionary offsetting collections credited to HHS's budget. The bill requires the Secretary to post quarterly reports on the network's website showing how much each member pays in fees and what activities those fees support, and it mandates that the Government Accountability Office review the program and report to Congress within two years of enactment. The authority to collect these fees is set to expire five years after the bill becomes law. The legislation also adds new requirements for the network to integrate electronic health record systems, establish dashboards with transplant statistics, and ensure compliance with privacy regulations.
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