More than happy to answer any other questions you may have. For the record, I'm an ex-PhysAssist Scribes corporate employee and a current HealthChannels corporate employee (HealthChannels owns ScribeAmerica). I'd imagine that there are cases in which a scribe goes through one of these programs on their own, only to realize that they didn't need to pay for it, but I'm guessing it doesn't happen very often - or it's not very prevalent. I think these are the main buyers of the stand-alone training programs - not individuals. These practices typically don't have their own scribe training program, so they need to look for a training program where they will typically pay for, or reimburse upon completion. This is what is called "homegrown scribes". Where these third-party vendors come into play is the practices and facilities that do not want or need a fully managed scribe program through one of the big scribe providers. In my experience, I have not seen a lot of scribes with existing training/certification apply for a scribe position unless they received that training from a previous scribe job - so I don't think many scribes are getting their own certification before applying. With that said, most scribe companies will accept some external training/certification programs in lieu of their own training. So for the scribes who work for one of the larger companies, they do not need to pay for an external training program. This means they cannot do the training through SA, then go work for a private practice (at least without getting out of the non-compete). Scribes who work for a large company, like ScribeAmeica, don't have to pay for the same training but they have to sign a non-compete agreement. To build off my previous comment - anyone who wants to be a scribe needs to go through some sort of training, through no specific certification is required. Especially when the pay seems to be close to minimum wage for many of the medical scribe positions. I'm just trying to figure out if people are unfairly profiting off of those who want to become medical scribes. This also seems unnecessary to me, since most medical scribe jobs don't seem to require education past a high school diploma.įYI, this article is not about bashing medical scribes. I've also found that a bunch of community colleges offer medical scribe training programs and people are having to pay tuition for those. That is a good point that the private practice could use these third party vendors to train the scribes if they don't have their own training system. Thank you guys for answering! I'm just trying to figure out if people are getting duped into paying for certification when it is not necessary, since as you guys said, the big scribe companies or private practices will often train you.
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