# CPT 99344

> Medicare paid $186.12 for CPT 99344 in the office (non-facility) setting and $186.12 in a facility under the Q2 2018 Physician Fee Schedule, effective April 2018. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2018, when it increased 0.5%.

## What it is

A house call to a patient the practice has not treated before, made wherever the patient actually lives — a private home, an assisted living apartment, or a group home. The clinician takes a full history, examines the patient, and builds a plan from scratch. This level reflects moderately complex decision-making: multiple ongoing conditions, a new problem needing workup, or prescription changes that require monitoring. First visits like this are usually long, often approaching an hour.

## Selected release

- Release: Q2 2018 (2018 B)
- Effective: April 1 – June 30, 2018
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $186.12
- Facility national allowed amount: $186.12
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 3.38
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 1.56
- Facility practice expense RVU: 1.56
- Malpractice RVU: 0.23
- Conversion factor: 35.9996
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q2 2018)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu18b.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU18_APR.csv, row 16,554
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/99344/2018/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/99344/2018/B
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:08:19+00:00