Test code: 3946
CPT code(s): 87168
Clinical significance: Arthropods/insects may be vectors of disease and may cause infestations of skin, hair, and mucous membranes. Diagnosis of a disease or infestation may be achieved by recovery and identification of the intact arthropod/insect.
Methodology: Microscopic and Macroscopic Examination
Alternative name(s): Tick Identification, Parasite Identification, External, Arthropod Identification
Test Code: 17835
CPT Code(s): Not applicable
Clinical Significance: Culture, Sterilizer Check
Methodology: Culture or Enzyme Production
Test Code: 4479
CPT Code(s): Not applicable
Clinical Significance: Aside from well-accepted environmental cultures such as monitoring sterilization practices and monthly cultures of hospital waters and dialysate fluids, all other environmental microbiological investigations should be performed only as part of epidemiologic investigations in which environmental or medical-device surfaces may represent microbial reservoirs or sources of health care-associated pathogens.
Test code: 14541
CPT code(s): 87070
Clinical significance: The significance of any isolate in pure or mixed culture must be assessed with respect to the source cultured, the organism's pathogenic potential, the possibility of colonization versus infection, and the number of other organisms recovered in the same culture.
Test Code: 11479
CPT Code(s): 87880
Test Code: 4485
CPT Code(s): 87081
Test Code: 8801
Test Code: 11363
CPT Codes: 87494
Test code: 763
CPT code(s): 85790
Methodology: Photo-Optical Clot Detection
Clinical Significance: The aPTT is a screening test that will detect deficiencies or inhibitors to the intrinsic (Factors VIII, IX, XI and XII) and common (Factors II, V, X and fibrinogen) pathway coagulation factors.
