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United Network for Organ Sharing  

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  • The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) is a private nonprofit organization that operates the nation's organ distribution system, under contract to the health and human services department (HHS). In 1998 UNOS and HHS got into a heated dispute over proposed new HHS rules that would have required that organs be distributed nationally, not regionally. [Source: Health Care Policy and Politics A to Z; United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)]

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