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99306 CPT® CODE DESCRIPTION, PROGRESS NOTES, RVU, DISTRIBUTION (LEVEL 3 INITIAL NURSING FACILITY CARE) This 99306 CPT® lecture reviews the procedure code definition, progress note examples, RVU values, national distribution data and explains when this code should be used in the nursing facility setting (nursing home).  CPT stands for Current Procedural Terminology. This code is part of a family of medical billing codes described by the numbers 99304-99306.  CPT® 99306 represents the high (level 3) initial nursing facility care visit (whether you are the attending or a consultant) and is part of the Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS).  This procedure code lecture for initial nursing facility care, to be used for NEW OR ESTABLISHED PATIENTS board certified internal medicine physician with over ten years of clinical hospitalist experience in a large community hospitalist practitioners (nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, certified nurse midwives and physician as*istants) understand the complex criteria needed to stay compliant with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and other third party insurance You can find my entire collection of  medical billing and coding CPT® lectures together in one place on my Pinterest site (CPT® supports the level of service you are submitting for payment. The volume of your docu*entation should not be used to determine your must be reasonable and necessary and all entries should be dated and contain a CMS defined legible signature or signature attestation, if My interpretations discussed below are based on my review of the 1995 and 1997 E&M guidelines, the CMS E&M guide and the Marshfield Clinic audit point system for medical decision making. These resources can be found in my HOSPITALIST RESOURCES but has become the standard audit compliance tool in many parts of the country. You should check with your own Medicare carrier in your state to verify whether or not they use a different criteria standard than that for which I have presented here in my free educational