Showing posts with label NLDAC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NLDAC. Show all posts
Friday, October 3, 2025

Race to the bottom: NLDAC and NY State both aim to be payers of last resort for reimbursing kidney donors

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A tale of bureaucracy, in two acts  1.  NLDAC, the federally funded National Living Donor Assistance Center , was for a long time the only ...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Why is achieving financial neutrality in organ donation so hard?

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For some years now, many opponents of compensation for kidney donors have come to agree that at least donors should not have to bear large e...
Wednesday, August 7, 2024

How Do Financial Obstacles Affect Decision-Making Among Potential Living Organ Donors?

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  Here's a report on the effects of helping living organ donors with their expenses. Mandell, Rebecca J., Abigail R. Smith, Kimberly A. ...
Sunday, July 16, 2023

National Living Donor Assistance Center (NLDAC): I rotate off the advisory board

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  After seven years, I'm rotating off the advisory board of the  National Living Donor Assistance Center (NLDAC). During that time, NLD...
Friday, January 27, 2023

Liver exchange pilot program at UNOS

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 In another step for liver exchange , here's the announcement from UNOS, which recently registered its first patient-donor pair: UNOS la...
Sunday, January 1, 2023

New York State's Living Donor Support Act (LDSA, S. 1594) was signed by Governor Hochul on Dec. 29

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 Frank McCormick forwards this email: From: Elaine Perlman Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2022 5:44 PM Subject: Governor Hochul Has Signed ...
Saturday, September 17, 2022

Non-directed organ donors and NLDAC financial support

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For some years I've been a member of the advisory group of the National Living Donor Assistance Center ( NLDAC ) which is authorized to...
Thursday, March 31, 2022

National Living Donor Assistance Center (NLDAC) support for lost wages and dependent care

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 NLDAC, the National Living Donor Assistance Center, is spreading the word on the new ways it can reimburse expenses incurred by living org...
Saturday, August 21, 2021

Introduction to NLDAC (the National Living Donor Assistance Center)

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 I'm on the advisory board of the National Living Donor Assistance Center , which has recently gotten increased resources and mandate to...
Sunday, September 27, 2020

Removing financial disincentives to living organ donation: HRSA publishes Final Rule

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  The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Health and Human Services Department (HHS) has published its Final Rule in the Fe...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Lost Wages Support for Living Organ Donors Demonstration Project

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HRSA (the Health Resources & Services Administration) has now funded a Lost Wages Support for Living Organ Donors Demonstration Projec...
Tuesday, July 16, 2019

President Trump's Executive Order on kidney care

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On July 10, while I was in China, President Trump issued an executive order touching on all aspects of care for kidney patients, including ...
Monday, June 3, 2019

Steps towards reimbursing kidney donors--update from Frank McCormick

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 I've written before about NLDAC, the federally funded National Living Donor Assistance Center, which operates under many regulatory co...
Thursday, December 27, 2018

Compensate living donors for lost wages and other expenses?

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It seems like an idea whose time should come, and for which there's growing support: One simple change the government could make to e...
Saturday, July 21, 2018

Effects of removing some financial dis-incentives to kidney donation through the National Living Donor Assistance Center (NLDAC)

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Here's a recent paper looking at NLDAC . (I'm on their advisory board .) It might help make the case for yesterday's proposed ...
Tuesday, October 3, 2017

The effect of paying the travel expenses of living kidney donors: Schnier et al. on NLDAC

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The National Living Donor Assistance Center (NLDAC) can only give a very little money to economically deprived kidney donors who are donati...
Thursday, December 22, 2016

NLDAC announces a trial of Lost Wages Reimbursement for Living Organ Donors (funded by the Arnold Foundation)

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Here's some good news in an email that arrived yesterday from NLDAC , the National Living Donor Assistance Center (about which I have h...