CBA Florida Inc. (fka CBAI)

[dianebRN]

Sure. If you take the example of a hospital who has a partnership with a reproductive endocrinologist or high end cosmetic plastic surgeon or Urogyne physician who does surgery for adult female incontinence, there are many possibilites. Hospitals are bound by all kinds of laws like the Starke law or antikickback law. So in the case of the reproductive endocrinologist, the hospital gets a few spin down revenues like ultrasound, labwork, etc but the primary purpose of the venture is to get the woman to deliver her baby at the joint venture hospital site. What ends up happening is the two entities make a legal agreement about what each entity would provide and try to sell it to the world at large. If I knew Matt I would tell him to market the Afford a Cord program directly to a hospital for at least half off. Sounds drastic but hospitals only get at best 40% of what they charge. Then the hospital could market that all their patients get umbilical cord services for free (at least for the first year or something like that) You get the picture. Does that have anything to do with your question? lol

Question, can there ever be a working partnership or relationship between a private individual and a public entity for storage whereby both sides benefit from the stored stem and the cost is defrayed or split. Somewhat like the middle of the road for cost and availability for usage. Is it a possibility or feasible?