OPTN Region 10 — southwest Ohio, northern Kentucky, and southeastern Indiana (Cincinnati region)
CMS performance & status
Shown solid blue (Tier 1) on the CMS 2025 OPO Tier Status map based on 2023 performance data; OPO name and code OHOV confirmed in the document's OPO code table.
This OPO is graded Tier 1 (2025 (data year 2023)) under the CMS Conditions for Coverage outcome measures. Tier 1 is the top-performing band, automatically recertified.
Reported OPO conflicts of interest concentrated in outside employment and outside board memberships, 2015-2023
LifeCenter Organ Donor Network; LifeShare Network; Midwest Transplant Network; Donor Alliance; Gift of Life Donor Program (and other surveyed OPOs)
The Senate Finance Committee 'Operation Transplant' report tabulated conflicts OPOs reported for 2015-2023, dominated by outside-employment and outside-board-membership conflicts: e.g., LifeCenter reported 53 outside-employment conflicts plus 18 financial conflicts; Midwest Transplant Network 20 outside-employment and 2 board conflicts; LifeShare 22 outside-employment and 8 board conflicts; Donor Alliance 7 outside-employment and 8 board conflicts; Gift of Life Donor Program 8 outside-employment, 7 board-service, and 5 financial conflicts. The report criticized the disclosures as vague and inconsistently reviewed.
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.