Infectious Disease

Test code: 97581

Test Code: 10121

CPT Code(s): 87481 (x2) *CPT coding may differ dependent on payer rules which may impact prior authorization testing.  Please direct any questions regarding CPT coding to the payer being billed.

Test Code: 10029

CPT Code(s): 87481 (x2), 87661 *CPT coding may differ dependent on payer rules which may impact prior authorization testing.  Please direct any questions regarding CPT coding to the payer being billed.

Test Code: 10119

CPT Code(s): 81513, 87481 (x2), 87661 *CPT coding may differ dependent on payer rules which may impact prior authorization testing.  Please direct any questions regarding CPT coding to the payer being billed.

Test Code: 10123

CPT Code(s): 87494, 81513 *CPT coding may differ dependent on payer rules which may impact prior authorization testing.
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Test Code: 10016

CPT Code: 81513

Test Code: 10018

CPT Code(s): 87015, 87207

Test Code: 593

CPT Code(s): 83615

Methodology: Spectrophotometry (SP)

Clinical Significance: Elevations in serum lactate dehydrogenase occur from myocardial infarction, liver disease, pernicious and megaloblastic anemia, pulmonary emboli, malignancies, and muscular dystrophy. Since lactic dehydrogenase is present in many body tissues, it's diagnosis usefulness is limited. Tissue specificity may be enhanced by isoenzyme analysis.

Test Code: 654

CPT Code(s): 86308

Methodology: Agglutination

Clinical Significance: Heterophile antibodies, in patients with infectious mononucleosis, may be present as early as the fourth day of illness, and by the twenty-first day of illness, 90% of patients will exhibit a positive test. The Epstein-Barr virus causes infectious mononucleosis.

Alternative Name(s): Infectious Mononucleosis, Mono Screen