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The Kidney Transplant Collaborative (KTC) today praised the bipartisan coalition of members of the U.S. House of Representatives who wrote to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation...

Kidneys are currently the most needed organ in the country, and an ongoing crisis has left tens of thousands in limbo. As of September, nearly 90,000 people in the US are waiting for kidneys, but only...

For months, Congress has debated budget bill after budget bill, narrowly missing government shutdown deadlines seemingly every month. With a divided Congress and narrow majorities in both chambers, consensus...

When a beloved character in a movie needs a life-saving organ transplant, it almost always magically works out for a happy ending. My father’s story went this way, and I am forever thankful for it. But...

The Kidney Transplant Collaborative recently signed on to a letter supporting the Saving Organs One Flight at a Time Act.

The Living Kidney Donor Support Act would benefit tens of thousands of Americans and save billions of tax dollars. The United States does not have enough transplant kidneys to provide one to each person...

“All of your medical and surgical expenses will be paid by your recipient’s insurance,” the nurse coordinator at the Mayo Clinic told me. Naïve, I nodded into the phone at this reassurance. I had already...