Update: Second Request for information: The Role of Patient Selection Criteria in Ensuring Equitable Access to Kidney Transplantation

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG), Office of Evaluation and Inspections (OEI), is conducting a study regarding the role of patient selection criteria in ensuring equitable access to kidney transplantation. This notice is to confirm that OIG is planning to send a second request for information to some kidney transplant programs.

As a part of this study, we are collecting data from Medicare-participating adult kidney transplant programs. In our first request for information, sent to transplant programs in April 2024, we requested that programs submit their written patient selection criteria and certain information regarding the population of patients evaluated for a deceased donor kidney transplant in calendar year 2023.

Programs with patients in our study sample will receive a second request for information by email from a member of the OIG study team to the address that the program provided in response to our initial request for information. That email message will contain detailed instructions regarding what data to submit and how to submit it via Kiteworks secure file transfer. We will begin sending the second request for information in July 2024.

Not all transplant programs that received our initial request for information will receive the second one.

If you have questions regarding this request or questions regarding this study more broadly, please contact Elizabeth Sandefer at (202) 878-2696 or OIGPSCStudy@oig.hhs.gov or Elizabeth.Sandefer@oig.hhs.gov

Last updated July 18, 2024