The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services seeks public comments until Feb. 1 to inform potential changes to the requirements for transplant programs, organ procurement organizations, and end-stage renal disease facilities that participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs to improve and advance equity in organ donation and transplantation and dialysis services. 

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