Not quite "millions" but last time they told me it was really close to 1/4! (BUT, I did do a search and found that "Joe Public of my age would end up creating "billings" of over $1 million!!!!

But the VA and Vanderbilt have a symbiotic relationship on this:

The VA Medical Center is located in the middle of Vandy's campus and it is physically connected to the Vandy Medical Center and Cancer Institute. The VA gets to have access to all of Vandy's "state of the art" treatments and stem cell research/specialists (along with many other organ transplant disciplines). Vandy gets to have access to the large VA pool of patients and the Vandy doctors work at the VA, for the VA, and as such, Vandy does not have to cover any "liability insurance costs" for their efforts at the VA!!! It works to everyone's best interests.

Between the VA and Vandy, that location performs more bone marrow/stem cell, kidney, liver and lung transplants that any other place in the country!

Again, I had previously been upset about being sent to a VA facility in Tennessee (before I knew what really goes on there). "Why can't you send me to somewhere good here in Florida like Moffitt?" "Well, would you rather get treated here by the doctors that wrote the paper or, do you want to get treated somewhere else where the doctors are reading the instructions?" !!!!!!

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Edited: 05/19/2020 at 07:39 AM by dingpatch