Application Review

2812.5 - Application Review (Rev. 179, Issued: 07-06- 18, Effective: 07-06-18, Implantation: 07- 06-18) The applicant OPO must submit its application by the specified deadline to the CMS RO for review. The RO will assemble a panel to review the applications. Each application will be reviewed according to the following criteria at 42 CFR 486.316(d): a. Compliance with the outcome measures at 42 CFR 486.318; b. Compliance with 42 CFR 486.320 through 42 CFR 486.348; c. Contiguity to the open service area; and d. Success in identifying and overcoming barriers to donation within its own service area and the relevance of those barriers to barriers in the open area. An OPO competing for an open service area must submit information and data that describe the barriers in its service area, how they affected organ donation, what steps the OPO took to overcome them, and the results.