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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.
In reading the article, Medicare GO438-GO439: Two Annual Wellness Visit Codes, I have a question regarding the HCPCS billing code GO402 which the article says to use for billing an initial wellness visit the first 12 months of Medicare coverage. I understand that to mean GO438 is not a billing code.