People With I/DD Less Likely To Receive Kidney Transplant Evaluation Or Transplant

People with intellectual/developmental disabilities (I/DD) and end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) were 22% less likely to receive a kidney transplant evaluation and 38% less likely to receive a transplant than people with ESKD without I/DD. Forty states have laws prohibiting disability-based discrimination in the organ transplant process, but researchers found that having an antidiscrimination law was not significantly associated with reducing either disparity. Evaluation and transplant disparities were nearly identical in states with and without antidiscrimination laws.

State laws vary in the protections and enforcement mechanisms they include. Some provide a private right of action, which . . .