Urine Culture

Test Details

Synonyms

• Culture, Urine, Routine
• Midstream Urine Culture, Routine
• Routine Culture, Urine, Clean Catch
• Urine Culture, Catheter
• Urine Culture, Routine, Midvoid Specimen

Test Includes

Culture; quantitation, isolation, identification (additional charges/CPT code[s] may apply), and susceptibility testing of up to two organisms at >10,000 colonies/mL if culture results warrant (additional charges/CPT code[s] may apply). CPT coding for microbiology and virology procedures often cannot be determined before the culture is performed. Requests with only a written order and no test number indicated will be processed according to Default Testing for Routine Microbiology.