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Membership & Professional Standards Committee (MPSC). Spring 2014. Recent Public Comment Proposals. Proposed Patient Notification of Functional Inactivity Due to Lack of Transplant Activity March 2014 – MPSC review of public comment & responses Post public comment amendment
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Membership & Professional Standards Committee (MPSC) Spring 2014
Recent Public Comment Proposals • Proposed Patient Notification of Functional Inactivity Due to Lack of Transplant Activity • March 2014 – MPSC review of public comment & responses • Post public comment amendment • Board Review – June 2014 • Implementation Date – September 1, 2014, if approved
Recent Public Comment Proposals • Proposal to Revise the Current Method for Flagging for Transplant Program Post-transplant Performance Reviews • March 2014 – MPSC review of public comment & responses • Board Review – June 2014 • Implementation Date – January 1, 2015, if approved
Ongoing Committee Initiatives • Review of bylaw requirements/qualifications for primary surgeons and physicians • Procurement requirements • Defining “foreign equivalency” • Defining “working knowledge” and “currency” • Revisit the definition of a member transplant hospital • Codified vs operational understanding • Identifying impacts if kept as is or if revised
New Committee Initiatives • OPTN Quality Assurance and Process Improvement (QAPI) requirement • Committee will review language March 2014 • Fall 2014 public comment
Questions? • Carl Berg, MD Committee Chair carl.berg@duke.edu • Name Region # Representative email • Sally Aungier Committee Liaison sally.aungier@unos.org