SPRY Launches First AI Scribe Agent Built Natively for Rehab Therapy: Learns Clinician Preferences, Carries Full Patient History, and Drives 80% Therapist Retention

[CITY]--(BUSINESS WIRE)--[April 8], 2026 --SPRY, the AI-native EHR and revenue cycle management platform for outpatient rehabilitation, today announced the launch of SPRY Agentic Scribe, an AI documentation system built natively for rehab therapy. Unlike scribes that generate a draft and stop, SPRY stays active during the session, catching errors, learning each clinician's documentation style, and carrying the patient's full history into every visit. In five months, adoption grew 18x with no mandate. Some clinics have reported documentation time dropping by up to 75% and revenue increasing by 20–30% within 90 days.

"It's like educating someone who works for you on how you want things done in the future. It's not a one-time fix. It actually learns," said JJ Lawley, PT, DPT, Clinical Director, Orthopedic Physical Therapy Services. "I actually enjoy doing notes to some degree now, which is shocking to say. I don't think anyone gets into physical therapy because they enjoy doing notes. But it is no longer the worst part of my day."

The launch comes as CMS begins testing AI-driven prior authorization in Medicare and insurers increasingly adopt algorithmic decision-making. Industry data shows outpatient coding denials rose 26% year over year in 2025, driven by stricter documentation requirements. For clinics operating on 2–7% margins, the note now determines whether care gets approved and paid.

In September 2025, roughly 4% of therapists on SPRY were using AI documentation. By February 2026, that figure reached 45%, driven entirely by organic adoption. Eight in ten therapists who try it are still using it 30 to 60 days later. In high-adoption clinics, notes that previously took hours to complete after appointments are now often done within 2 hours. Some practices report saving more than 100 hours per clinic per month.

From the moment the session begins, SPRY Agentic Scribe already knows the patient's history. After the session, the first draft populates the clinic's actual form fields, not a generic narrative to copy and paste from. If the draft surfaces a discrepancy, the clinician speaks the correction and the note updates everywhere at once. Every note sounds like the treating provider, because the scribe learns each clinician's style and applies it automatically from that point forward.

"In one note, the left shoulder was mentioned but it was really the right shoulder and that resulted in all sections being incorrect. The agent corrected all sections at once," said Stacy Hund, PT, DPT, OCS, CSCS, Founder, SET Physical Therapy. "It saves my preferences and updates future notes accordingly." SET Physical Therapy reduced documentation time by 60% in the first six months and 80% in the three months after that.

"For most of the last decade, therapists have treated the clinical note as a necessary evil, something to get through at the end of a long day of patient care," said Brijraj Bhuptani, cofounder and CEO of SPRY. "Every tool before this promised marginal improvements, and maybe delivered them, until the next payer rule or compliance requirement erased the gains. We built something that works the other way around. The note adapts to the clinician. When therapists tell us they actually enjoy documenting now, that is the signal that something fundamentally different is happening."

SPRY Agentic Scribe is part of SPRY’s broader suite of AI agents, including the Prior Authorization Agent and Scheduling Agent, forming an autonomous operating layer for outpatient rehab built in-house, not bolted on. Additional information is available on the SPRY website.

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About SPRY

SPRY Therapeutics Inc. is an AI-native platform built for outpatient specialty care. Purpose-built for physical, occupational, and speech therapy practices, SPRY unifies digital intake, real-time eligibility and prior authorization workflows, AI-assisted documentation, coding, billing, payments, and analytics into one seamless system—helping clinics reduce administrative work and improve billing accuracy. SPRY has earned top ratings for usability, configurability, and responsive support on G2 (4.8/5) and Capterra (4.9/5), and was ranked #1 by Black Book Research in the Ambulatory EHR category for Physical & Occupational Therapy in 2026. For more information, visit www.sprypt.com.

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