Primary Care

Test Code: 16814

CPT Code(s): 86038

Methodology: Immunofluorescent Assay (IFA)

Clinical Significance: Antinuclear antibodies are associated with rheumatic diseases including Systemic Lupus Erythematous (SLE), mixed connective tissue disease, Sjogren's syndrome, scleroderma, polymyositis, CREST syndrome, and neurologic SLE.

Includes: The ANA Screen, IFA, Reflex Titer/Pattern, and Reflex to Multiplex 11 Ab Cascade begins with an ANA Screen, IFA.

Test Code: 484

CPT Code(s): 82947

Methodology: Spectrophotometry (SP)

Clinical Significance:Plasma glucose levels may be abnormally high (hyperglycemia) or abnormally low (hypoglycemia). Glucose measurements are used in the diagnosis and treatment of carbohydrate metabolic disorders including diabetes mellitus, idiopathic hypoglycemia, and pancreatic islet cell neoplasm.

Test Code: 223

CPT Code(s): 82040

Methodology: Spectrophotometry (SP)

Test Code: 4418

CPT Code(s): 86431

Methodology: Immunoturbidimetry

Clinical Significance: Elevated RF is found in collagen vascular diseases such as SLE, rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma, Sjögren's Syndrome, and in other conditions such as leprosy, tuberculosis, syphilis, malignancy, thyroid disease and in a significant percentage of otherwise normal elderly patients.

Alternative Name(s): RF

Test Code: 606

CPT Code(s): 83690

Methodology: Spectrophotometry (SP)

Clinical Significance: Confirmatory evidence for diagnosis of pancreatitis.

Alternative Name(s): Pancreatic lipase; LIP; Lipase, serum

Test Code: 10256

CPT Code(s): 80076

Includes: Total Protein, Albumin, Globulin (calculated), Albumin/Globulin Ratio (calculated), Total Bilirubin, Direct Bilirubin, Indirect Bilirubin (calculated), Alkaline Phosphatase, AST, ALT

Methodology: See individual tests

Clinical Significance: See individual tests

Alternative Name(s): Basic liver profile; LFT; Liver Function Profile

Test Code: 745

CPT Code(s): 84144

Methodology: Immunoassay

Clinical Significance: Levels increase sharply during the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle. The level increases from 9 to 32 weeks of pregnancy.

Alternative Name(s): N/A

Test Code: 7137

CPT Code(s): 83001, 83002

Methodology: Immunoassay

Sed Rate by Modified Westergren, Manual

Test Code: 29891

CPT Code: 85651

Alternative Name(s): Sed rate; ESR, Erythrocyte sedimentation rate; Westergren sed rate

Methodology: Modified Westergren 

Clinical Significance: Useful in differentiating inflammatory and neoplastic diseases and as an index of disease severity.

Test Code: 483

CPT Code(s): 82947

Methodology: Spectrophotometry (SP)

Limitations: Glucose levels may be depressed if sample is left to clot and not spun for an excessive length of time.