Specimen

Serum or Plasma

Collection Medium:

Alternate
Collection Media:

Red top tube

Minimum:

Collect TWO full 6 mL pink K2 EDTA top tubes.

Adult preferred minimum: 4.0 mL serum or plasma
Adult absolute minimum: 2.5 mL serum or plasma
Pediatric minimum: 1.5 mL serum or plasma

Rejection Criteria:

Separator tubes

Analytic Time:

5 days upon receipt at reference laboratory

Interpretive Data:

For medical purposes only; not valid for employment drug testing.  
Drugs covered: codeine, morphine, 6-acetylmorphine, hydrocodone, 
hydromorphone, and oxycodone.  Positive cutoff: 2 ng/mL

Methodology:

Tandem Mass Spectrometry

CPT Code:

83925