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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 simplest case involves a patient the surgeon sees in the office and then schedules for surgery through the outpatient surgery department. Consultations for Medicare patients are reported with new patient (99201â99205) or established patient (99212â99215) Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes.