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CPT Codes For Microbiology Culture And Typing Procedures
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Below is a list summarizing the CPT codes for microbiology culture and typing procedures.
CPT Code 87040
CPT 87040 describes a culture of aerobic bacteria from a blood sample, with isolation and presumptive identification of isolates, including anaerobic culture if appropriate.
CPT Code 87045
CPT 87045 describes the culture of aerobic bacteria in a stool sample, with isolation and preliminary examination (e.g., KIA, LIA) for Salmonella and Shigella species.
CPT Code 87046
CPT 87046 describes the isolation and presumptive identification of aerobic bacterial isolates from a stool sample, with additional pathogens tested on each plate.
CPT Code 87070
CPT 87070 describes the culture of bacteria from any source other than urine, blood, or stool, with aerobic isolation and presumptive identification of isolates.
CPT Code 87071
CPT 87071 describes a quantitative culture of aerobic bacteria with isolation and presumptive identification of isolates from any source except urine, blood, or stool.
CPT Code 87073
CPT 87073 describes a quantitative anaerobic culture with isolation and presumptive identification of isolates from any source except urine, blood, or stool.
CPT Code 87075
CPT 87075 describes the culture of any source, except blood, anaerobic with isolation and presumptive identification of isolates.
CPT Code 87076
CPT 87076 describes the culture of anaerobic bacterial isolates, requiring additional methods to identify each isolate.
CPT Code 87077
CPT 87077 describes the additional methods required to identify each aerobic bacterial isolate definitively.
CPT Code 87081
CPT 87081 describes screening only for culture and presumptive pathogenic organisms.
CPT Code 87084
CPT 87084 describes screening only for presumptive pathogenic organisms with colony estimation from a density chart.
CPT Code 87086
CPT 87086 describes a quantitative colony count of bacteria in the urine.
CPT Code 87088
CPT 87088 describes the culture of bacteria with the isolation and presumptive identification of each isolate from urine.
CPT Code 87101
CPT 87101 describes isolating culture, fungi (mold or yeast) from skin, hair, or nail, with presumptive identification of isolates.
CPT Code 87102
CPT 87102 describes the isolation of culture and fungi (mold or yeast) with presumptive identification of isolates from a source other than blood.
CPT Code 87103
CPT 87103 describes the isolation of culture and fungi (mold or yeast) with presumptive identification of isolates from blood.
CPT Code 87106
CPT 87106 describes the definitive identification of each organism, including culture and fungi, such as yeast.
CPT Code 87107
CPT 87107 describes the definitive identification of each organism, including culture and fungi, such as mold.
CPT Code 87109
CPT 87109 describes the culture of mycoplasma from any source.
CPT Code 87110
CPT 87110 describes a culture for chlamydia from any source.
CPT Code 87116
CPT 87116 describes the isolation and presumptive identification of isolates of culture, tubercle, or other acid-fast bacilli (e.g., TB, AFB, mycobacteria) from any source.
CPT Code 87118
CPT 87118 describes the definitive identification of each mycobacterial isolate in culture.
CPT Code 87140
CPT 87140 describes the immunofluorescent method of typing culture using each antiserum.
CPT Code 87143
CPT 87143 describes culture typing, gas-liquid chromatography (GLC), or high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) method.
CPT Code 87147
CPT 87147 describes a culture typing immunologic method other than immunofluorescence, such as agglutination grouping per antiserum.
CPT Code 87149
CPT 87149 describes the direct probe technique for identifying organisms by nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) probe per culture or isolate.
CPT Code 87150
CPT 87150 describes the identification of an organism by nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) probe, amplified probe technique, per culture or isolate, using culture and typing.
CPT Code 87152
CPT 87152 describes an organism’s culture, typing, and identification by pulse field gel typing.
CPT Code 87153
CPT 87153 identifies culture typing by nucleic acid sequencing method, such as sequencing the 16S rRNA gene, for each isolate.
CPT Code 87154
CPT 87154 describes using nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) probe, multiplexed amplified probe technique including reverse multiplex transcription, when performed, to identify blood pathogens and resistance typing per culture or isolate with six or more targets.
CPT Code 87158
CPT 87158 describes culture typing and other methods.
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