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Test ID: GEN    
Bacterial Culture, Aerobic

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Test Classification Provides information regarding the medical device classification for laboratory test kits and reagents. Tests may be classified as cleared or approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and used per manufacturer's instructions, or as products that do not undergo full FDA review and approval, and are then labeled as an Analyte Specific Reagent (ASR), Investigation Use Only (IUO) product, or a Research Use Only (RUO) product.

This test uses a standard method. Its performance characteristics were determined by Mayo Clinic in a manner consistent with CLIA requirements.

NY State Approved Indicates the status of NY State approval and if the test is orderable for NY State clients.

Yes

CPT Code Information Provides guidance in determining the appropriate Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code(s) information for each test or profile. The listed CPT codes reflect Mayo Medical Laboratories interpretation of CPT coding requirements. It is the responsibility of each laboratory to determine correct CPT codes to use for billing.

Bacterial Culture, Aerobic

87070

Gram Negative Bacillus Ident

87077 (if appropriate)

Identification Commercial Kit

87077 (if appropriate)

Ident by MALDI-TOF mass spec

87077 (if appropriate)

Fluorescent Method Culture Typing

87140 (if appropriate)

Bacteria Identification

87077 (if appropriate)

Aerobe Ident by Sequencing

87153 (if appropriate)

Additional Identification Procedure

87077 (if appropriate)

Serologic Agglut Method Ident

87147 (if appropriate)

Serologic Agglut Method Ident

87147 (if appropriate)

Identification Staphylococcus

87077 (if appropriate)

Identification Streptococcus

87077 (if appropriate)

Tissue Processing

87176 (if appropriate)

Beta Lactamase

87185 (if appropriate)

KPC PCR

87150 (if appropriate)

Hodge Test

87185 (if appropriate)

LOINC® Code Information Provides guidance in determining the Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) values for the result codes returned for this test or profile.

Result IDReporting NameLOINC Code
GENBacterial Culture, AerobicIn Process