CPT® 0052U, Under Proprietary Laboratory Analyses

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code 0052U as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Proprietary Laboratory Analyses.

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This is a Proprietary Laboratory Analyses (PLA) code, meaning that the code applies to only one unique lab test made by a specific manufacturer or performed by a specific lab. Report code 0052U for the VAP® Cholesterol Test by VAP Diagnostics Laboratory, Inc., which involves high–resolution fractionation and measures the amount of lipoprotein in a patient’s blood specimen. The test includes total lipoprotein, high–density lipoprotein (HDL), low–density lipoprotein (LDL), very–low–density lipoprotein (VLDL), lipoprotein(a) (Lp(a)), intermediate–density lipoprotein (IDL), HDL subclasses (HDL2 and HDL3), LDL subclasses (LDL1, LDL2, LDL3, and LDL4), VLDL subclasses (VLDL1, VLDL2, and VLDL3), and LDL.

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