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DewDiligence

05/05/06 12:37 PM

#28283 RE: xrymd #28279

>…the going rate from paid donors is $25.00. Estimated charge is $12-1500/ unit of Polyheme.<

First, $25 strikes me as unrealistically low. Second, you have to multiply by the number of donated units required to make one unit of Polyheme. It’s not clear to me that this isn’t a potentially material item on the COGS line.
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jellybean

05/05/06 5:41 PM

#28326 RE: xrymd #28279

Yes, I know. Patients in the control arm are given saline until such a time that a real-blooc transfusion is possible.