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Urges U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to reconsider new organ procurement.

The bill urges the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to reconsider new rules concerning organ procurement organizations (OPOs). The new rules would revise outcome measure requirements, establish procedures for decertifying OPOs, and create competitive bidding requirements. The resolution argues that these changes could disrupt the organ procurement and transplantation systems, potentially reducing the number of organ procurements and transplants, and disproportionately affecting patients from racial and ethnic minorities.