OPTN Membership Forms Change Memo CLEAN

Health Resources and Services DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES Administration Healthcare Systems Bureau Rockville, MD 20857

Request: The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) requests a change to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Information Collection (OMB #0915-0184) current expiration date –7/31/2020

Purpose: This clarification is necessary to align OPTN information collection from intestine transplant programs with corresponding membership requirements set forth in the OPTN bylaws.

Time Sensitivity: As soon as possible.

PROPOSED CLARIFICATION

Membership in the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) is determined by submission of application materials to the OPTN. These documents demonstrate the applicant meets all required criteria for membership contained in the OPTN bylaws and agrees to comply with all applicable provisions of the National Organ Transplant Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 273, et seq. These applications are developed to enable submission of all the information required to make membership approval decisions.

A question regarding designated intestine transplant programs was inadvertently omitted from the OPTN membership application forms approved by the Office of Management and Budget during July 2017. Specifically, the omitted question is used to collect information to demonstrate compliance with the intestine transplant program “primary transplant physician” training and experience requirements in the OPTN bylaws.

The respondents who will be completing the application form include OPTN members seeking initial OPTN membership approval for a designated intestine transplant program and maintenance of the existing OPTN approval for the program. There is no additional burden associated with the new question.

Attachment:

A. OPTN B10 Intestine Form (see page 15)