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Test Code SOFT: VITD 25-Hydroxyvitamin D

Additional Codes

Ordering Mnemonic
EPIC NAME: 25-HYDOXYVITAMIN D

 EPIC: LAB535

Performing Laboratory

Saint Francis Medical Center-Chemistry

Specimen Requirements

 

 

Specimen Type: Serum, Li- Heparin

Container/Tube: Plain red-top tube or serum gel tube or  Lithium heparin gel tube (mint green), EDTA plasma (lavender)

Specimen Volume: 1.0 mL

 

 

 

Specimen Transport Temperature

Refrigerated 4 days

Frozen 14 days

Ambient 8 hours

Reference Values

Normal/Therapeutic Range: <20 ng/ml- vitamin D deficiency

                                                         <30 ng/ml-vitamin D insufficiency

                                                         >30 ng/ml- perferred level

Day(s) Test Set Up

Monday through Sunday

Test Classification and CPT Coding

82306

Methodology

Electrochemiluminescence Binding Assay (ECL)