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New rules raise concern on state procuring organs

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Experts and advocates say the new rules will phase out groups that aren’t as effective in pursuing organs for more than 100,000 people on the national transplant waiting list. Critics say decertifying groups will sow chaos in a complex system.Fresh guidelines for organ procurement groups are “long overdue,” said Dr. James D. Eason, transplant surgery division chief at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center and director of an eponymous transplant center at Methodist University Hospital in Memphis.

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