Medicare Could Have Saved Millions if Organ Procurement Organizations had Correctly Reported Procurement of Double Lungs as Two Organs.

摘要

Organ procurement organizations (OPOs) are not-for-profit organizations that facilitate organ donation and transplantation. An OPO may be an independent entity or part of a hospital. A previous Office of Inspector General review identified an issue related to how independent OPOs reported procurement of double lungs (the left and right lungs) for cost allocation purposes. The objectives of this review were (1) to determine whether OPOs nationwide reported lung statistics correctly by reporting double lungs as two organs instead of one organ in their fiscal year (FY) 2011 Medicare cost reports and, if they did not, (2) to estimate how much the Medicare program could have saved if OPOs had correctly reported double lungs.