Luke Preczewski is the Vice President of the Miami Transplant Institute (MTI), a unique affiliation between Jackson Health System and UHealth, the University of Miami Health System. Prior to joining MTI, Luke served as the executive director of the transplant center at the University of California, Davis Medical Center. Prior to that, he served as the administrative director of the Comprehensive Transplant Center at Northwestern University, co-chair of the medical informatics committee of the Northwestern University Transplant Outcomes Research Collaborative, and treasurer of the Chicago Transplant Ethics Consortium.
Luke is a member of the executive committee for the American Society of Transplantation Administration and Quality Community of Practice, where he served as chair for three years. He also serves on the public policy committee of the American Society of Transplantation and sits on the Jackson Health System Clinical Research Review Committee. His professional interests include medical informatics, bioethics and human subjects protection, economics, healthcare disparities, and transplant public policy.
Implications of the Proposed Changes to the Medicare Organ Transplantation Requirements
On December 1st, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking public comments on the proposed changes to the requirements that Transplant Programs and Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) must meet in order to be eligible for participation in Medicare and Medicaid Programs. CMS issued this request in response to the unfavorable comments the agency received regarding the previously proposed changes to the requirements in its FY 2022 IPPS proposed rule, which stakeholders felt did not holistically consider the impact of those changes to the transplantation system. The intended goal of this webinar is to raise awareness about the potential changes to the transplantation requirements and engage donation and transplant professionals in an open discussion to evaluate the prospective impact these changes will have on organ availability and access.