Phlebotomy Requirements in Michigan

No state regulation. Michigan creates each licensed or registered health profession individually under Article 15 of the Public Health Code, and phlebotomy has no licensure or registration Part, so there is no state credential, scope of practice, training minimum, or examination. Laboratories are instead regulated at facility level under CLIA, and national certification is an employer requirement rather than a state one.

There is no Michigan licence, certificate, or registration for phlebotomists, and no state board oversees the occupation. Michigan's health professions are created and regulated one by one under Article 15 (Occupations) of the Public Health Code, 1978 PA 368, and administered by the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA), Bureau of Professional Licensing. Phlebotomy is not among the professions given a licensure or registration Part in Article 15 — the licensed and registered health professions are those such as acupuncturists, athletic trainers, audiologists, behavior analysts, chiropractors, counselors, dental assistants, dental hygienists, dentists, marriage and family therapists, massage therapists, midwives, nurses, nursing home administrators, occupational therapists and assistants, optometrists, pharmacists, physical therapists and assistants, physician assistants, physicians (MD and DO), podiatrists, psychologists, respiratory therapists, sanitarians, social workers, social service technicians, speech-language pathologists, and veterinarians and veterinary technicians. Because a Michigan phlebotomist holds no state credential, there is also no state-defined scope of practice, no state training-hour minimum, and no state examination. Michigan laboratories are instead regulated at the facility level: LARA's Bureau of Survey and Certification administers the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) programme, under which the laboratory — not the individual drawing blood — is responsible for ensuring personnel are trained and competent for the tasks assigned to them. A concrete illustration of the state's own hiring standard is the Michigan Civil Service Commission's Phlebotomist job specification, which sets education as completion of high school with no specific type or amount required, defines higher levels by one or two years of phlebotomist experience, and imposes no state licence or mandatory national certification. In the private sector the practical requirements are set by employers: Michigan hospitals, health systems, reference laboratories, blood centres, and plasma centres typically require a high school diploma or GED, completion of a phlebotomy training programme combining classroom instruction with a supervised clinical externship and a documented minimum number of live venipunctures and capillary sticks, a national certification (NHA CPT, ASCP PBT, AMT RPT, or NCCT NCPT) at hire or within a stated grace period, current BLS/CPR certification, immunisation records, and a background check and drug screen.

There is no state credential to renew. Phlebotomists in Michigan maintain the national certification their employer requires, on that certifying body's cycle — NHA CPT every 2 years with 10 continuing-education credits; ASCP PBT on the Credential Maintenance Program, 9 points every 3 years; AMT RPT on the Certification Continuation Program, 24 points every 3 years; NCCT NCPT annually with NCCT continuing education. Employers also typically require BLS/CPR to be kept current, usually on a 2-year cycle.

No state phlebotomist licence exists, so there is no state application or renewal fee for individuals. The costs are the national certification exam fee charged by the certifying body plus tuition for a training programme. Michigan does not publish a phlebotomy-specific fee schedule because it issues no such credential.