Summary

Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to collect registration fees from Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) members for each transplant candidate they place on the match/registration list, and requires public quarterly disclosure of amounts collected and how the fees are used. Also directs the OPTN to consider creating a dashboard with transplant and organ statistics updated more frequently than the current annual cadence, and requires a Comptroller General review and report within two years.

Key Points

• Authorizes HHS to charge OPTN members a registration fee for each transplant candidate placed on the match/registration list.
• Fees can be collected directly by HHS or through OPTN award mechanisms and are treated as discretionary offsetting collections.
• Collected fees remain available until expended but may be distributed to OPTN awardees only if appropriations Acts permit.
• Requires the Secretary to post, and update quarterly, the amount of fees collected from each member and the activities those fees support.
• Directs the OPTN to consider creating a more frequently updated transplant and organ statistics dashboard.
• Requires a Comptroller General review and report with recommendations to Congress within two years, subject to data availability.
• Changes federal accounting and transparency rules governing OPTN-related fee collections.
• Does not itself create new appropriations or change patient eligibility for transplant-related benefits.

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