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ORGANS BEYOND BORDERS: AN INTRODUCTION TO TWO POLICY QUESTIONS
A. Should Non-Resident Non-Citizen of the U.S. Be Eligible for U.S. Organs?
Although not widely publicized, the U.S. organ distribution system allows non-U.S. citizens to be considered for receiving an organ procured in the United States from a U.S. organ donor. In a 2012 publication aimed at the general public, the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) writes that
[p]atients can travel from other countries to the U.S. to receive transplants. Once a transplant center lists them, non-resident aliens are considered based on the same factors as U.S.
citizens. Non-resident aliens comprise roughly 0.8% of the U.S. waiting list. They also comprise 0.4% of deceased donors and 1.8% of living donors in the U.S.5
Writing for the Hastings Center in 2008, Arthur Caplan writes that “[t]hough American transplant centers can list foreigners, they can make up no more than 5% of any center’s list. Most
of non-U.S. citizens listed have substantial financial resources and pay in cash.”6 In fact, this slightly misstates the relevant guidance, which indicates only that a center for which
foreigners comprise more than five percent of its list is subject to an audit.7 In June 2012, noting confusion about the old five-percent rule, the Organ Procurement and Transplantation
Network (OPTN), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the UNOS moved to a newer policy that does away with the five-percent threshold but instead
collects data on non-citizen/non-residents transplants and will report the numbers as part of its annual reporting.
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