Replies to post #32225 on CBA Florida Inc. (fka CBAI)

[MrLong]

Nothing with regard to CBAI but lets look at the private storage industry as a whole and the CMS/HMO relationships. At the end of the day due stems save insurers money to treat the patient? CMS and others appear to be nodding heads in agreement.

CMS as of June 2010 will open up the results of all these patient Clinical Trial studies to the public. A panel will be assembled from NIH and gov't heads appointed to discuss the pairing of treatments that had the best resultant for the patient for a certain disease; again from trial study data. Any investor interested should go to ClinicalTrials.gov where you will that the USA has led the world more autologous and allogeneic related and unrelated studies since 05'.

Very important because as we all know the FDA hasn't approved these treatments for medical use and they all get an experimental tag. If a patient is enrolled in a trial that get the treatment. Well, starting now going foward patients will be able to use the trial data success to petition CMS and private insurers for the treatment. Many of these treatments have open enrollment status that patients will be able to enroll into as they have done secretly under CMS for years. Enrollment will remain confidential but it appears these treatments will save money by curing versus medicating the patient.

The Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act has money pumped into it to direct the traffic unlike ever before to make sure the public is aware of all these great experimental treatments.

Where does the private storage industry go? Again the FDA has made a brightline ruling that your own stems trump unrelated donor stems; CBAI business should benefit from the consumer receiving government education regarding clarity surrounding the longstanding debate.

CBAI and other private storage companies will garner the biggest ad campaign push, from the government, promoting private-autologous-allogeneic-family-related cord. That alone should generate business for the private cord business.

CMS and HMO's going forward will pay for banking private cord when a medical necessity is required. First time ever the insurer pays! Huge for CBAI imo. Any program to help more families bank private cord once the 'Awareness Campaign' is fully underway can only help the private storage business.