Athelas Ambient AI: A Medical Scribe for Physical Therapy

Better documentation. Cleaner rehabilitation notes. Happier clinics.

Athelas Ambient AI brings specialty-grade physical therapy documentation to your workflow, capturing initial evaluations, progress notes, discharge summaries, functional assessments, and goal tracking with unmatched accuracy.

No templates. No macros. Just comprehensive, structured notes that appear automatically in your EHR.

"All the great work you're doing is helping not only the industry offset those Medicare cuts, but it's also helping physical therapists survive and just stay afloat."

Wade Meier, Co-Founder, Meier & Marsh Professional Therapies

Designed to Keep Up with PT Demands

Physical therapy sessions are high-volume, hands-on, and focused on functional outcomes. Athelas Ambient AI listens to the encounter and turns your spoken narrative into polished, compliant documentation, without slowing you down.

What You Get

Evaluations and functional outcome measures captured naturally during sessions

Automated goal setting, plan-of-care updates, and progress note generation tied to functional improvement

Integrated home exercise programs (HEPs) and patient education, personalized to each treatment plan

Structured documentation aligned with physical therapy workflows, including evals, daily notes, and re-evals

Faster documentation close-out with cleaner charge capture and billing accuracy for PT services


How It Works

Step 1

Start The Visit.

Speak naturally; Athelas Scribe captures the conversation.

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Step 2

Let AI Draft The Note.

Each section (Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan) is built automatically.

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Step 3

Review & Sign.

Notes are delivered into your EHR for quick approval.

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How Ambient AI Can Help Your PT Practice

EHR Integration

Integrated with all major EHRs to show upcoming patient appointment information.

Financial Results

Providers have seen a 93% collection rate and CPT-level revenue increase across top procedures.

Accessible Anywhere

Integrated across multiple devices.

Speech Recognition

Engineered for multi-speaker conversational settings, with advanced real-time speech recognition technology.

Coding Recommendations & Autocoding

Generates CPT/ICD-10 codes from SOAP notes using LLMs, returning hours of daily productivity back to staff and ensuring undercoding never happens again.

Ambient AI for PT

  • Ambient AI for PT

  • Significant reduction in after-hours charting

  • Higher confidence in documenting functional progress

  • Seamless integration with major EHRs

  • Enterprise-ready security and compliance

Helpful Note Examples

Below are sample physical therapy outputs to give a sense of clarity, structure, and accuracy.

Why Physical Therapy Practices Choose Athelas Ambient AI

Physical therapy clinicians need more time with patients, not with their charts. Athelas gives it back.

25M+

patient encounters annually

25%

reduction in denials on average

25

specialties with proven ROI in documentation reduction

91%

of providers reduce documentation time and digital fatigue

Real-World Results

Meier & Marsh Professional Therapies teamed up with Athelas to unlock faster support response times, build customized solutions and workflows, and maximize collections to achieve these outcomes for their practice:

  • $4.77 collected per encounter in patient payments (5x higher than before)

  • Established a 93% collection rate (33% above benchmark)

  • 1.2% total denial + rejection rate, well below the 5–10% industry standard

  • 96% first-pass claim rate and 99% submission-to-closure rate

  • Rules engine now running 22 site-specific automations, impacting 6,000+ claims

  • CPT-level revenue up across 4 of 5 top procedures

  • SmartPay features (bulk auto-charge, decline tracking) improving aging A/R

  • 3-day average from date of service to submission (7 days better than benchmark)

Ready to streamline operations and unlock hidden revenue like Meier & Marsh?

Schedule a demo to see how Ambient AI scribe can help you get the same results.