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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 Medicare Outpatient Code Editor (OCE) is a software program that is used to detect and report errors in coding while processing outpatient hospital claims. The OCE also assigns an APC number for each service that is covered under OPPS and returns information to be used as input to a pricer program.