OPO accountability dossier
Southwest Transplant Alliance (STA)
OPTN Region 4 — north, central, and parts of south Texas (Dallas region and beyond)
CMS performance & status
CMS 2023 OPO Interim Annual Public Aggregated Performance Report, Table 5b: 2021 tier = Tier 2 (donation category 2B, transplant category 2C; 2019/2020/2021 = 1/2/2).
This OPO is graded Tier 2 (2023 Assessment (CY2021 data)) under the CMS Conditions for Coverage outcome measures. Tier 2 is above the median but below the top quartile; these OPOs must compete to retain their service area.
2023 OPO Interim Annual Public Aggregated Performance Report (CMS), Table 5b
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.