a person or thing that floats. 2. Informal. a person who is continually changing his or her place of abode, employment, etc. 3. an employee without a fixed job assignment: One of our officers works as a floater, filling in when someone is out. 4. U.S. Politics. a voter not attached to any party, especially a person whose vote may be purchased. 5. a person who fraudulently votes, usually for pay, in different places in the same election.
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.
[Medicare DOES NOT pay for consults. They stopped accepting consult codes effective 1/1/2010. Also, Medicaid programs, Tricare, Work Comp, and any Medicare supplements DO NOT accept them per CMS decision of 1/1/2010.Some commercial plans still accepts them, such as BCBS and UHC.un 25 2014, 7:19 PM. It is not my experience that ALL insurances except medicare pay for consult codes 99241-99245. Our BCBS absolutely does not pay for them. I find more insurances do not pay than there are ones that do.