Medscape Scribe

Who can use it, and what does it cost?

It costs nothing for Medscape users, "at no additional cost" in WebMD's October 2024 press release. Medscape's help page, updated in November 2025, limits access to registered US MDs, nurses, PAs and students on iOS, and to US MDs only on Android. The release dates the launch to October 29, 2024, while HIT Consultant had reported the rollout in August 2024 under the headline "Medscape launches free AI medical scribe for physicians".

What does Scribe produce?

The press release announces a free, AI-powered tool that transcribes and summarizes patient visits. According to it and the help page, Scribe:

• Transcribes and summarizes a visit in real time.
• Flags dosage and frequency details for review with a feature called Scribecheck.
• Lets you pause and resume, edit on medscape.com, and syncs summaries between app and website.
• Deletes transcripts automatically after 72 hours.

The release says Scribe supports integration with EMR and EHR systems and names none. The workflow it describes is copying the note into the EHR. The release calls the tool HIPAA-compliant. It does not name the company supplying the speech and language models, and it gives no usage counts or accuracy data. No FDA clearance for Medscape Scribe appears in openFDA.

What are the limits?

A Medium comparison of free AI scribes lists three: summaries vanish after 72 hours, there is no direct EHR integration, and accuracy needs careful checking. Its author states that no objective speed or accuracy test was run.

For price context, Freed's paid Starter plan is $39 a month for up to 40 notes, shown beside $59, per getfreed.ai/pricing in October 2026. Medscape Scribe costs nothing. Transcripts are deleted after 72 hours, and the workflow is copy and paste.

The verdict

Ambient notes cost a US physician, nurse, PA or student nothing inside the Medscape app. On Android only US MDs are admitted, per the help page, and the transcript is gone after 72 hours.