While FDA guidelines do allow compensation for donation of blood components intended for transfusion, there are currently no blood centers in the U.S. that pay donors. Since any blood products collected from such donors must be labeled as "Paid Donor", hospital transfusion services are reluctant to accept these units. Aside from a few small hospital-based collection centers, there has not been payment for blood donations since the early 1970's.
You may, however, become a compensated source plasma donor. Plasma is collected by apheresis technology at local plasma centers. The FDA requires source plasma donors to have a permanent address within a specified distance from the collection site. Search your local yellow pages for "plasma" or "blood" for the nearest plasma center.
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