Remove financial barriers for living organ donors by expanding and reauthorizing federal reimbursement support, increasing reimbursements, broadening eligibility, and requiring program reporting.

This legislation would remove unnecessary financial barriers that contribute to the transplant list growing every year. By making donations more accessible, we can help more patients receive the life-saving transplants they need.

DelBene committed through the Expanding Support for Living Donors Act to reduce living organ donors' out-of-pocket financial barriers by extending and expanding the federal reimbursement program.

DelBene, Miller, Schrier Introduce Bill to Remove Financial Barriers for Living Organ Donors | U.S. House of Representatives
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HRSA says its Living Organ Donation Reimbursement Program reimburses up to $6,000 of a living donor’s expenses, including travel, lodging, meals, lost wages, and childcare or eldercare costs tied to evaluation, surgery, and follow-up. It also says non-directed living donors qualify if they meet citizenship and residency requirements.

Official HRSA materials show that federal reimbursement support exists and covers several cost categories, including lost wages and caregiving costs, but the page does not show reauthorization, higher reimbursement amounts beyond $6,000, new reporting requirements, or DelBene-specific delivery.

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Living Organ Donation | organdonor.gov
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Congress.gov lists H.R.2923 as the Living Donor Protection Act of 2023, sponsored by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, with latest action on 04/28/2023: referred to the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health. The tracker states the bill had the status Introduced.

The related living-donor financial-protection bill did not advance beyond introduction/referral in the 118th Congress, so it does not prove delivery of the reimbursement expansion and reauthorization commitment.

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H.R.2923 - Living Donor Protection Act of 2023
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The bill text would bar insurers from denying, canceling, pricing, or varying life, disability, or long-term-care insurance based solely on living organ donor status, and would clarify that recovery from organ-donation surgery qualifies as a serious health condition under FMLA.

DelBene-backed legislation addressed some financial barriers for living donors through insurance and leave protections, but it did not enact the specific federal reimbursement reauthorization, increased reimbursement, eligibility broadening, and reporting package in the claim.

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Text - H.R.2923 - Living Donor Protection Act of 2023
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Congress.gov’s cosponsor list records Rep. DelBene, Suzan K. [D-WA-1] as a cosponsor of H.R.2923 on 04/28/2023.

DelBene took concrete legislative action on a related living-donor financial-barrier bill, but cosponsorship of an unenacted protection bill is effort evidence, not delivery of the reimbursement-expansion commitment.

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Cosponsors - H.R.2923 - Living Donor Protection Act of 2023
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