Nurse: I heard you recently created a new Medicare payment category. Medicare: Yes! "Software as a Medical Service." When AI analyzes clinical data, it gets its own category, codes, and payment. Nurse: Great. Where do I find nursing's payment category? Medicare: Check under "room and board." Nurse: That's the bed. Medicare: And the mattress. And the box of tissues. You are in there somewhere. Nurse: I have been keeping patients alive since before Medicare began in 1965. Medicare: Correct. Nurse: And the AI software got a billing code first? Medicare: Correct. The conversation is made up. The facts are not. When care is invisible on the bill, it becomes invisible in the budget.   submitted by   /u/CerTracker918 [link]   [comments]