PPM Tests

Microscopic tests performed by a physician, physician?s assistant, nurse practitioner, nurse midwife, or dentist:

• Wet Mounts
• KOH Preps
• Pinworm Preps
• Fern Tests
• Post-Coital Qualitative Exam
• Urine Sediment Exam
• Nasal Smears for Granulocytes
• Fecal WBC Examinations
• Semen Analysis, Qualitative

Moderately Complex Tests:

• Hematology Instruments: CBCs
• Manual Differential/Limited ID
• Most Chemistry Tests: Large Analyzers
• Urine Culture/Colony Count Only
• Gram Stain/Urethral,Cervical for GC
• Throat Culture Screen Using Hemolysis, Bacitracin Disk, Selective Strep Agar
• GC Culture Screen Using Gram Stain and Oxidase Test
• Some Rapid Kits: Chlamydia, RF, etc.

Highly Complex Tests:

All remaining tests are classified as highly complex.

Courtesy, Quality America, Inc. 4/20/2007