Medicare Program; Alternative Payment Model Updates and the Increasing Organ Transplant Access (IOTA) Model
Key claim: CMS is updating the Increasing Organ Transplant Access (IOTA) Model for Performance Year 2 and making a technical correction to the regulatory text.
Abstract
(Rule · Health and Human Services Department, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) This final rule will update and revise the Increasing Organ Transplant Access (IOTA) Model for Performance Year (PY) 2. This final rule also includes a technical correction to the regulatory text.
Why this matters
The IOTA Model is one of CMS’s mandatory alternative payment models restructuring how transplant hospitals are paid and evaluated on access and outcomes. Year-two updates affect scoring, benchmarks, or operational rules for participating hospitals, which in turn shapes transplant availability for Medicare beneficiaries on kidney waitlists.