How each figure on this site is made, and how to cite one. The worked examples below reproduce published figures from the filings of organ procurement organizations (OPOs) and transplant hospitals, one at a time. Rows marked blank arrive with the next release.
How to cite a figure
Every figure carries a chip or is printed blank. The chip names the form, the worksheet, the line, the column, the fiscal period, the label as filed, the release tag and the release hash. The copy button on the chip gives you the citation below in one piece. Cite the filing and the cell. The site is where you read it.
Example figure
$1.32BSource: OPO cost report, fiscal 2024
Its citation
CMS-216-94, Worksheet S-1 Part I, line 9, column 3, fiscal 2024, period-end
line label: Total
column label: Amount Received
figure: by_organ_total.total_usd
release: fy2024-pe.v1.3a-beta.r5
values_hash: aae7000082c98184f87f5e122565e84a1031fb6cf90d14179a3411937edc82f0
source: Meira Atlas, atlas.meira.life, from federal data (CMS HCRIS)
Attribution line
Source: Meira Atlas, release fy2024-pe.v1.3a-beta.r5, sha256 aae7000082c98184f87f5e122565e84a1031fb6cf90d14179a3411937edc82f0, by 2460 Health Tech, Inc., CC BY 4.0, derived from CMS HCRIS cost reports (CMS-216-94 and CMS-2552-10), HRSA service areas and IRS Form 990 filings.
Pinned slice
/api/econ/r/<release tag>/<year>/<section> serves every figure of one part of the release for one year. It is not edited after publication. A correction is a new release.
01. Tissue money on the OPO cost report
Each row is one item from the packet, with the figure as this release carries it.
What it isTotal expenses, Worksheet A line 26 column 7, for one filing
Where to find itExplore, the The flow lens, fiscal year ending 2024
Figure and citation$236,369,047Source: OPO cost report, fiscal 2024
What it isThe same cell in the first complete fiscal year of the series (the year control carries every year, and the release names which of them are complete)
Where to find itExplore, the The flow lens, fiscal year ending 2020
Figure and citation$175,835,166Source: OPO cost report, fiscal 2020
What it isCost of organs imported from other OPOs, A-2 line 17, on the kidney sheet (the spine filing reports none, so this row names a filing that does)
Where to find itExplore, the Organ procurement organizations lens, fiscal year ending 2024
Figure and citation$6,439,209Source: OPO cost report, fiscal 2024
What it isThe same row, the net adjustment as filed. It is signed, and it runs both ways: allowable exceeds claimed on some rows, so this is not a disallowance
Where to find itExplore, the The flow lens, fiscal year ending 2024
Figure and citation$2,626,097Source: OPO cost report, fiscal 2024