Midwest Transplant Network Inc.

“The organization engages an outside accounting firm to prepare its form 990. Once the form 990 is prepared by the accounting firm and reviewed by management, the final form is provided to the entire board of directors at a regularly scheduled board meeting prior to filing. Questions and comments raised during the meeting regarding the final form 990 are addressed prior to filing.”

“All board members and employees are required to complete annual corporate compliance training, which includes the conflict of interest policy and a written test. The corporate compliance program is audited annually. Any conflicts of interest are determined and reviewed by the board chair and outside legal counsel. If it is determined that a board member has a conflict of interest, the board member must abstain from voting on any issue related to the conflict.”

“Midwest transplant network engages an independent firm to survey executive and key employee compensation every three years. In addition, the organization uses a salary survey provided by the association for organ procurement organizations every two years. This information is provided to the compensation committee for their annual review of executive and key employee compensation, pay increases and benefits on an annual basis.”

“The organization's governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements are not available to the public.”

“Midwest transplant network (mtn) first began operation as midwest organ bank in 1973. Initially incorporated as a not-for-profit, community-based tissue typing laboratory and kidney recovery program by physicians dedicated to the care and treatment of end state renal disease patients, we became one of the nation's first independent organ procurement organizations (opo). After the passage of the 1984 national organ transplant act, the health care finance administration (hcfa) certified our organization as an opo and designated an exclusive service area that included the state of kansas and more than 60 counties in central and western missouri. Within our donation service area (dsa), we serve a population of 5.5 million and have service contracts with approximately 230 hospitals. Five of those hospitals are transplant centers and include the children's mercy hospital, research medical center, saint luke's hospital, university hospital (columbia, mo), and the university of kansas hospital. At the urging of hospitals in our area, we expanded the scope of services to include tissue and eye recovery and in 1999 changed our name to midwest transplant network to better describe the expanded nature of the services provided. Mtn is a member of the united network for organ sharing (unos) and participates in the organ procurement and transplant network (optn) that is overseen by the u.s. Department of health and human services health resources services administration (hrsa). Governance of the organization is provided by a governing board which is comprised of business leaders, physicians, and members of the community. An advisory board of individuals with experience and expertise in donation, transplantation, healthcare and other disciplines provides advice to the governing board for specific areas of policy development. General responsibility for the organization is delegated to the chief executive officer. Mtn's primary puropse is to facilitate the organ and tissue donation process when a person dies at a hospital within the service area. In accordance with legal and regulatory requirements, mtn's highly trained staff work with physicians to evaluate the potential for donation of organs, tissues and eyes to determine if they are suitable for transplantation, research or medical study. Appropriate consents or authorizations are obtained and the process to complete the recovery of donated gifts in initiated. After death is pronounced, the potential donor is treated to ensure that organ function is maintained prior to recovery. In accordance with unos policy, organ recipients are identified, the surgical recovery is completed, and organs are distributed to the transplant programs. Vital organs for transplant include heart, lung, liver, kidney, pancreas, and small bowel. As required by the fda under the human cells, tissues, and cellular and tissue-based products (hct/ps) regulations, mtn is registered as a tissue establishment and undergoes regular inspections. Mtn works under contract wih several tissue processors, eye banks and research organizations to recover tissues for transplant, and recover tissues and organs for research. Tissues for transplant include skin, bone, connective tissue, blood vessels, heart valves, cornea, and eyes. Research organs and tissues may include those listed or others specified by the researcher. The tissue banks we contract with give priority access to tissue from our donors to hospitals located in our service area. These tissue banks include musculoskeletal tarnsplant foundation, rti donor services, cryolife, lifenet, iiam and national disease research interchange. Mtn works collaboratively with saving sight and the kansas eye bank and research center to maximize the gift of eye and cornea donation. Mtn is an accredited member of the american association of tissue banks (aatb). Public education and awareness about the critical need for donation and transplantation is an important goal of our organization.”

“Description:donor hospital fees total fees:10222917”

“Description:surgeon & other medical fees total fees:2345866”

“Description:non-dsa recovery fees total fees:3412946”

“Description:registry fees total fees:705859”