With more than a fifth of kidneys now allocated outside the established order, serious concerns about transparency, fairness, ...

and their fates rest largely on nonprofits called organ procurement organizations. Every state has at least one, and they have government contracts to identify donors, recover organs and ...

The process involves two players: organ procurement organizations (OPOs) and transplant centers. The procurement organizations identify donors, recover organs, offer them to patients on the ...

Citing the Times’ reporting, the senators said some organ procurement organizations of bypassing patients who have been waiting to receive organs at times for years in order to reduce their ...

in collaboration with organ procurement organizations responsible for authorization, testing, and recovery of organs from deceased donors for transplantation. In 1984, Congress passed the National ...