The downside is that fees run higher than they do for a similar mutual fund.

Legal fees are running as high as $250 to $300 an hour.

The fee would run twice that at one of the private clinics where the doctors also work.

The fees doctors receive from managed care plans run less than $10 per month for an adult patient.

The fee, with meals, runs from $80 to $200 a night for a couple.

The fees have run from about 10 percent to 25 percent or more.

By then, Keating's legal fees were running at $1 million a month.

Final fees can run well over $1,000 for complicated programs, such as one that will manage an investment business.

The legal fees and commissions on that much money would run into the millions each year.

The fees generated by this deal could easily run to $500 million.