Collect: First-morning urine collected in a plastic container.
Storage/Transport Temperature: 1 mL aliquot from well-mixed first-morning urine at 2-8°C. Submit specimen in an ARUP Standard Transport Tube.
Remarks: Do not freeze. First-morning urine is the preferred specimen as it usually contains the highest concentration of beta-hCG; however, any specimen is suitable for testing.
Stability (collection to initiation of testing): Ambient: 8 hours; Refrigerated: 3 days; Frozen: Unacceptable
Reference Interval:
Negative
CPT Code(s):
81025
Cross References:
hCG, Urine Qualitative, Human Chorionic Gonadotropin, Urine Qualitative