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Test Code BMP Basic Metabolic Panel

Performing Laboratory

Memorial Hospital Laboratory- Automated Procedures  304-388-5953       
General Hospital Laboratory 304-388-6244
Women and Children's Hospital Laboratory 304-388-2385
Teays Valley Hospital Laboratory 304-757-1770
Cancer Center Laboratory 304-388-8317
Plateau Medical Center Laboratory 304-469-8621
Greenbrier Valley Laboratory 304-647-6060

Test Profile

Calcium, Total  Glucose 
Carbon Dioxide  Potassium 
Chloride  Sodium 
Creatinine  Urea Nitrogen
Anion Gap  

Specimen Requirements

Plasma- Mint Green, Dark Green Lithium Heparin or Serum- SST gold top, red top

Allow SST or red top to completely clot

Spin and physically separate plasma/serum from contact with cells as soon as possible

4 mL of plasma/serum (minimum 2 mL)

Specimen Rejection

See individual test

Storage and Stability

See individual test

Reference Values

Anion Gap: 5-16 mmol/L

Other Analytes: See individual test

Methodology

Anion Gap= [Na-(Cl+CO2)]

Other Analytes: See individual test

Days Test Set Up and Turnaround

Monday through Sunday, Continuously 

AM Collection Expected by 9AM same day
Routine Expected within 24 hrs
Stat Expected within 1 hr
Timed Expected results are test dependant

CPT Coding

80048