Drug Monitoring Meperidine, Quantitative, Urine

Overview

  • EPIC Code:
  • MISC
  • Soft Test Code:
  • MSOT
  • Send Out Test Code:
  • 39408
Included Tests

Meperidine; Normeperiine


Clinical Significance

The management of patients use of controlled substances is an increasing focus of law enforcement to ensure that prescribed medications arent diverted, and is critical to the successful outcome of many pharmaco-therapies. Urine drug testing for the presence or absence of prescribed medications and illicit drugs is a strategy designed to help the treating physician monitor their patients for compliance with that physicians directive(s).


Specimen Collection & Preparation

Client Notes

 Please contact 266-1500 (Option 1) to acquire the appropriate specimen type


Specimen Requirements

20.0 mL Urine in a Rounded Yellow Top Tube pulled from collection cup  Green Clinical Drug Test Collection Cup


Transport And Storage

5 days Ambient
7 days Refrigerated
30 days Frozen

Transport Ambient


Collection Instructions

 


Minimum Volume

7.0 mL Urine


Neonatal Volume

Clinical Interpretation

Reference Range:

Meperidine <100 ng/mL
Normeperidine <100 ng/mL


Methodology:
  • Mass Spectrometry (MS)
Clinical Significance

The management of patients use of controlled substances is an increasing focus of law enforcement to ensure that prescribed medications arent diverted, and is critical to the successful outcome of many pharmaco-therapies. Urine drug testing for the presence or absence of prescribed medications and illicit drugs is a strategy designed to help the treating physician monitor their patients for compliance with that physicians directive(s).


Production Schedule

Sites Performed
  • Quest - Chantilly
Days Performed
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Departments
  • Sendouts - Miscellaneous
Turn Around Time

3 to 4 days


Coding & Compliance

CDM

0919362


CPT Coding

80362 (Medicare G0480)