House Committee Seeks Public Input on Organ Procurement Groups (1)

The House Ways and Means Committee is seeking public input on whether the nonprofit groups that solicit, retrieve, and transport human organs for transplantation are following federal laws and regulations.

The public request for information about the nation’s 55 organ procurement organizations, or OPOs, was issued Wednesday.

“Public reporting, congressional investigations, and an ongoing federal investigation have raised questions about whether tax-exempt organizations within our nation’s organ transplantation system are operating in a manner consistent with the laws and regulations that govern such organizations and whether taxpayer funds are paying for activities that are outside these organizations’ tax-exempt purpose,” said the ...