The variance among hospitals between normal ranges of pretty standard labs can be quite large, some labs can be downright questionable. I Am not sure how you would accomplish QC, QA and Validation of your product with so may different locations and practices. Hospitals aren’t equipped to store and monitor temperates to guarantee stability over time for manufactured doses. Patients would have no way to be certain the product they receive is even still fully active…that seems like a recipe for a marketing disaster. The manufacture is a big part of the cost/revenue justification. Why would you give those dollars away?
Espionage and reverse engineering are very real concerns. Losing control of your technology is asking someone to steal it from you..
I don’t doubt at all that they explored the concept. I don’t see it going any farther though. If cost savings is the goal, that would accomplish the opposite.
My old physician did a procedure that I have fairly regularly in his office and billed insurance $2400 plus anesthesiologist which was about $800. My new guy does it in the hospital outpatient procedure facility. This bill was $10,000 from the hospital, $1200 for the procedurist, $1400 for the out of network anesthesiologist, and $1100 for a required out of network radiologist read (the doc said ignore everything in that report, they don’t know how to properly read this disease, so we paid for quite literally no reason with no choice in the matter) $11k more because of the way hospitals bill.
And our industry is regularly demonized by not only the patients we cure, but also the physicians we turn into better healers…Americans can be clueless.
