Basic framework

OPTN: Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network: "The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), based in Richmond, Virginia, administers the OPTN under contract with the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)."

To remind me of how the regime is structured: a federal law (NOTA) created the network (OPTN), and also provided that a "private" company (UNOS) operate the network.