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Practical guides on AI medical scribes, clinical documentation, and physician compensation, written by a practicing cardiologist.
A wRVU (work relative value unit) is the standard unit Medicare uses to measure the physician work in a service: the time, skill, effort, and stress it takes to perform it. A quick medication check is worth about 1 wRVU. A moderately complex office visit is worth about 2. Major surgery can be worth 20 or more.
Read the articleAn AI medical scribe listens to your patient encounter and drafts the clinical note for you. You review it, edit it, sign it, and move to the next room. Done well, it returns one to two hours of your day. The market now has more than a dozen options, priced anywhere from free to more than $1,000 per provider per month, and the differences between them are not obvious from their homepages.
Read the articleAn AI medical scribe costs anywhere from $0 to more than $1,000 per provider per month in 2026. That range is so wide it’s almost useless, so this guide breaks it into bands, explains what each band actually buys, and walks through the fees that don’t appear on pricing pages. It ends with the arithmetic for deciding whether a scribe pays for itself in your practice.
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