Organ Transplant Groups Sue to Block HHS ‘Hunger Games’ Rule (1)

Organ procurement organizations are challenging a federal rule that they say unfairly measures their performance and threatens widespread disruption across the transplant and donation system.

Issued by the HHS’ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the 2020 rule “imposes draconian penalties” on organ procurement groups that rank low in transplant and donation rates based on metrics “substantially influenced by factors beyond” their control, the groups said in their Friday lawsuit, which aims to have the rule vacated.

Brought by LifeLink Foundation Inc., Iowa Donor Network, and other groups in the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida, ...