A patient needs to have serologic blood typing performed for ABO. What is the correct laboratory code for this test?

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86900 is the correct code for ABO serologic blood typing.
Code 86890 is incorrect because this code is for autologous blood or component collection processing and storage. Code 86901 is incorrect because this is for Rh typing and code 86902 is incorrect because this is antigen testing of donor blood using reagent serum.

A Patient Needs to Have Serologic Blood Typing Performed for ABO