New liver transplant rules yield winners, losers as wasted organs reach record high

Iowa is among seven states that have seen sharp declines in the lifesaving surgeries after news rules were implemented in 2020. The new system has nearly doubled the median distance livers are transported, increased transport costs and coincided with the highest number of wasted livers in nearly a decade.

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