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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.
Inpatient Consultation New or Established Patient: In the inpatient setting there are two subcategories for inpatient consult codes that are used by physician consultations provided to hospital inpatients, residents of nursing facilities or patient in a partial hospital setting.. consultant may initiate diagnostic and/or therapeutic services. However, if the referring physician transfers the responsibility of treatment, the receiving physician must bill using visit service codes--not the consultation service codes.