Does the Red Cross sell your blood to hospitals and then do hospitals charge you for a transfusion of donated blood? The tweet is true, but it lacks important context.
The Red Cross said in a statement: Yes, it charges hospitals for blood, but on a “cost-recovery basis.”
That statement outlined some of those costs: staffing, testing, equipment, advertising, right down to the storage of blood. It all costs money.
But, even that fee doesn’t even cover all the costs of their operation, it only covers 98.7% of it, according to the Red Cross.
As far as the cost to a patient for a transfusion, that has a price tag, too.
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