Section 13.2. Glomerular Filtration Rate Testing.--The director of a clinical laboratory licensed in this Commonwealth shall provide that when the laboratory tests a specimen to determine the serum creatinine level for a patient age 18 or older, the laboratory shall also calculate the patient's estimated glomerular filtration rate at no additional charge. The laboratory shall include the patient's estimated glomerular filtration rate with its report to the health care professional. Clinical laboratories in health care facilities shall report the estimated glomerular filtration rate based on a protocol developed by the laboratory in consultation with either or both its medical staff or clinical departments. A laboratory shall only be required to calculate and report a patient's estimated glomerular filtration rate if information necessary for the calculation to be considered medically appropriate and valid for the patient has been made available to the laboratory by the health care professional. This section shall not apply to clinical trials and research. Clinical laboratories that do not have information systems capable of providing estimated glomerular filtration rates on an automated basis shall have two years to comply with this section.
(13.2 added Nov. 9, 2006, P.L.1354, No.144)
Compiler's Note: Section 2 of Act 144 of 2006, which added section 13.2. provided that, in recognition of the constantly evolving nature of medicine and technology, section 2 shall expire on July 1, 2010. The reference to section 2 probably should have been to section 13.2.