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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.
It is also appropriate to code a hospital inpatient subsequent care code as the initial encounter as a consultant (or as the attending) instead. I know I just got done explaining why hospital inpatient initial care codes are the correct choice for the first patient encounter.he hospital inpatient initial care codes are CPTÂ® 99221-99223. The hospital inpatient subsequent care codes are CPTÂ® 99231-99233. This hospitalist is asking me if they should bill the highest level initial care code or the highest level subsequent care code for their initial encounter as a consultant.