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For Medicare patients, inpatient consultations are reported with the initial hospital visit codes (99221â99223). Do not append modifier AI, which is only used by the admitting physician.
But worry not. My Coding Career has talked with the experts to gather these 10 best practices for consult coding in 2010. Background: Medicare has scrapped consultation codes, and this year will no longer accept codes from CPTâs 99241-99255 section. So, when you are billing Medicare, youâll have to find other codes to describe what used to be consults.