Start Date
5-15-2025 9:30 AM
End Date
5-15-2025 11:30 AM
Description
Background
The Increasing Organ Transplant Access (IOTA) Model introduced by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) emphasizes increasing transplant volumes, reducing disparities, and enhancing care efficiency. Transplant centers face unique challenges, including workforce shortages, growing demand for organ transplants, care delivery inefficiencies, and the need to align with the achievement, efficiency, and quality domains of the IOTA model while fostering health equity. Integration, whether through mergers, acquisitions, or strategic alliances, offers transplant centers a competitive advantage in optimizing resources, expanding access, and meeting CMS metrics.
Keywords
transplant, equity, quality, IOTA, physician shortage, integration
Included in
Future of Transplant Centers: Leveraging Integration of Transplant Institutes to Mitigate the Impact of Transplant Professional Shortages and Enhance Patient Outcomes
Background
The Increasing Organ Transplant Access (IOTA) Model introduced by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) emphasizes increasing transplant volumes, reducing disparities, and enhancing care efficiency. Transplant centers face unique challenges, including workforce shortages, growing demand for organ transplants, care delivery inefficiencies, and the need to align with the achievement, efficiency, and quality domains of the IOTA model while fostering health equity. Integration, whether through mergers, acquisitions, or strategic alliances, offers transplant centers a competitive advantage in optimizing resources, expanding access, and meeting CMS metrics.
Comments
Presented at the 2025 Jefferson Health Equity and Quality Improvement (HEQI) Summit.