Increasing Organ Transplant Access

Increasing organ transplant access

Tulane Transplant Institute has been selected by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to participate in the Increasing Organ Transplant Access Model which aims to increase access to life-saving transplants for patients living with end-stage renal disease and reduce Medicare expenditures. This model focuses on providing incentives to transplant hospitals to increase transplantation.

Increasing organ transplant access

Living donor criteria

• 18 years of age or older
• Healthy individual free of renal, infectious and medical co-morbidities
• Individual willing to donate
• Individual free from inducements and coercion
• Understands may decline to donate at any time
• Be able to comprehend donation process and give informed consent
• Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR)> 80ml/min

Kidney transplant waitlist criteria

• Renal failure and/or renal replacement therapy (dialysis)
• Irreversible chronic renal failure with Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) < 20 ml/min