OPO accountability dossier

Center for Organ Recovery & Education (CORE)

PATFCMS Tier 1

OPTN Region 2 — western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and parts of western New York

CMS performance & status

Table 5b lists OPO code PATF with a CY2021 Tier Status of 1 (Tier 1): both rate measures at or above the top-25% cutoff (top performer).

This OPO is graded Tier 1 (2023 Assessment (CY2021 data)) under the CMS Conditions for Coverage outcome measures. Tier 1 is the top-performing band, automatically recertified.

2023 OPO Interim Annual Public Aggregated Performance Report (CMS), Table 5b (2021)

Findings naming this OPO (0)

No entity-level finding in OrganWatch names this OPO directly beyond its CMS performance status above. That is not a clearance — it reflects what the public record assembled here happens to name. See the full OrganWatch record for system-wide findings.


Every item is institution-level public record, source-linked; no patient, donor, or family is named. A Tier or finding here repeats the government's own assessment of an organization holding a public monopoly. Back to OrganWatch.