Organ Recovery Organizations Targeted in Ongoing Senate Probe (1)

The Senate Finance Committee expanded its bipartisan investigation of the US organ donation system this week with requests for information from organizations that recover and help transplant human organs from deceased donors.

The committee sent inquiry letters to eight organ procurement organizations, or OPOs, asking for information dating back to 2015 about potential conflicts of interest, and the personal financial interests and business relationships of OPO board members or executives with “any for-profit or non-profit organization that conducts business with your or another OPO.”

The letters also seek “all memoranda of understanding (MOU) your organization had with tissue banks, including ...