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WASHINGTON - Hospitals would be required to tell prospective living organ donors of the risks of donating a kidney or a slice of liver under proposed government rules that seek to protect those donors and ensure quality care at transplant centers. While many living donors suffer no problems, others fight pain after surgery and other complications, and a few die. Hospitals vary widely in what they tell potential donors and how they screen them. The new rules would require hospitals to spell out the risks. Those that fail to comply could lose Medicare payments, a powerful tool aimed at ensuring that centers are providing quality care and looking out for living donors, whose numbers have soared amid an acute shortage of organs from the dead.
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