2020 public comment presentations
- Align OPTN Policy with U.S. Public Health Service Guideline, 2020
- Guidance and Policy Clarifications Addressing Adult Heart Allocation Policy
- Guidance Addressing the Use of Pediatric Heart Exceptions
- Modify Living Donor Policy to Include Living VCA Donors
- Further Enhancements to the National Liver Review Board (NLRB)
- Programming VCA Allocation in UNet
- Modify Data Collection on VCA Living Donors
- COVID-19 Emergency Policies and Data Collection
- Updated Cohort for Calculation of the Lung Allocation Score (LAS)
- Update on the Continuous Distribution of Organs Project
- COVID-19 Emergency Policies and Data Collection
- OPTN Public Comment Orientation
- National Heart Review Board for Pediatrics (Thoracic Organ Transplantation Committee)
- Data Collection to Assess Socioeconomic Status (SES) and Access to Transplant (Minority Affairs Committee)
- Addressing Medically Urgent Candidates in New Kidney Allocation Policy (Kidney Transplantation Committee)
- Distribution of Kidneys and Pancreata from Alaska (Kidney & Pancreas Transplantation Committees)
- Modifications to Released Kidney and Pancreas Allocation (Organ Procurement Organization Committee)
- Enhancements to the National Liver Review Board (Liver and Intestinal Organ Transplantation Committee)
- Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) Equivalency Tables Update (2020) (Histocompatibility Committee)
- Guidance and Policy Modifications Addressing Blood Type Determination (Operations and Safety Committee)
- Modify Blood Type Determination and Reporting Policies
- Guidance on Blood Type Determination
- Update to VCA Transplant Outcomes Data Collection (Vascularized Composite Allograft (VCA) Transplantation Committee)
- Measuring Transplant Outcomes by Collecting Data on Children Born to Uterus Recipients (Vascularized Composite Allograft (VCA) Transplantation Committee)
Abdominal
- Addressing Medically Urgent Candidates in New Kidney Allocation Policy (Kidney Transplantation Committee)
- Modifications to Release Kidney and Pancreas Allocation (Organ Procurement Organization Committee)
- Enhancements to the National Liver Review Board (Liver and Intestinal Organ Transplantation Committee)
- Liver and Intestinal Transplantation Committee Update
Thoracic
- Thoracic Organ Transplantation Committee
- Thoracic Organ Transplantation Committee Update
- National Heart Review Board for Pediatrics
- Continuous Distribution of Lungs Update
- Winter 2020 OPTN Region Updates (PDF - 1478 K)
- Public Comment Proposals Winter 2020 (PDF; 1/2020; 4845 K)
2019 public comment presentations
Discussion agenda
- Modify Data Submission Policies, OPTN Data Advisory Committee
- Data Collection to Evaluate the Logistical Impact of Broader Distribution, OPTN Operations and Safety Committee
- Eliminate the Use of DSA and Region in Kidney Allocation Policy, OPTN Kidney Transplantation Committee
- Eliminate the Use of DSA and Region in Pancreas Allocation Policy, OPTN Pancreas Transplantation Committee
- Expedited Placement of Livers, OPTN Organ Procurement Organization Committee
- Continuous Distribution of Lungs Concept Paper, OPTN Thoracic Transplantation Committee