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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.
The reason and remark code sets must be used to report payment adjustments in. remittance advice transactions. The reason codes are also used in coordination-. of-benefits (COB) transactions. The RARC list is maintained by the Centers for. Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and used by all payers; and additions, deactivations, and modifications to it may be initiated by any health care.