Buyer: When we were talking saying the $30-$100 price range is per specimen that were talking about, right?
PP: Per specimen. Yes.
Buyer: And what does per specimen mean for Planned Parenthood? Is that, you
guys consider that, a discrete sample.
PP: One case. One patient, and again, there’s different steps involved too right? There’s who’s going to consent the patient to donate. It it’s staff, then that’s staff time, that gets figured into it, as opposed to if there’s someone that’s there, then it’s just flagging the interested or “eligible” patient and somebody else does the work. It’s basically for individual patient. So, if you end up shipping four individual specimens, that’s still one patient.
Buyer: Yea, that’s what I was going to say. If we take kidney, liver, thymus and say bone marrow-
PP: Yea, to us it’s all just one.
Buyer: Because when we charge, that’s four different specimens to a researcher
but-
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PP: That’s basically the way that they do their work. The way they budget is by the amount of time they spend on one patient. That’s one bunch of tissue, they handle the tissue, they do what they do, you know, in that way, so. But yea, that’s the way- It depends, if you’re expecting somebody to process, and package, identify tissue for you, it’s going to be at the higher end of the range. In all cases, it’s really gonna be about staff time, because that’s the only cost to the affiliate. And then, if you want space. For example, it is, it’s Novogenix is at PPLA, they have a corner of the lab. And they set up, come in with their coolers and everything, and handle all the tissue, but they’re taking up space, so I’m sure the affiliate considers that when they come up with what’s reasonable. But I don’t think anybody’s gonna come up with a crazy number, because they’re all very sensitive to this too. And at the end of the day, they want to offer this service because patients ask about it.
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