Upper Peninsula Regional Blood Center

What About Blood Charges?

The blood donated by volunteer donors is free and available to anyone who needs it.  As all non-profit blood centers do, the U.P. Regional Blood Center charges a processing fee to recover costs for recruiting donors, collecting, processing, testing, and distributing blood. In most cases, these costs are paid by health insurance plans.

The U.P. Regional Blood Center continues to be among the lowest-cost blood providers in Michigan and the nation.  U.P. volunteer donors giving blood regularly reduce the need for blood to be imported from other blood centers outside our area at a higher cost.