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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.
according to the icd 9cm 3 chapter 17 instructions inpatient coders are to code the primary procedure codefirst the add the robotic code s as a secondary code the list below identifies the robotic codes 17 41 open robotic assisted procedure 17 42 laparoscopic robotic assisted procedure