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This bill authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to collect registration fees from members of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN), a critical national system that manages the organ donation waiting list. Specifically, the bill allows the Secretary to charge fees for each transplant candidate a member places on the waiting list, with the fees to be used exclusively to support OPTN operations. The bill mandates transparency by requiring the Secretary to publicly post the amount of fees collected from each OPTN member and detail how those fees are used, with quarterly updates. The collected fees will be treated as discretionary offsetting collections and will be available through appropriations acts. Additionally, the bill requires the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct a review of these fee collection activities within two years and submit a report to relevant congressional committees. The bill also includes a provision encouraging OPTN to create a public dashboard displaying detailed transplant statistics, such as the number and types of transplants performed and organs that entered the system but were not transplanted. These changes aim to improve the financial sustainability and transparency of the organ transplantation system.

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5259/all-info