Athelas Ambient AI

Commure's ambient scribe for practices, with coding and visit follow-up

Healthcare Enterprise
Researched · Published · Reviewed
RECATOOLS Score
7.2 / 10
Capability
8
Value for money
6
Ease of use
7
ASEAN readiness
4.5
API quality
n/a
HQ
Mountain View, California, United States
Developer
Commure

Overview

Athelas Ambient AI is the ambient scribe Athelas, a Commure company, sells to practices: it records visits in 60+ languages, drafts notes, suggests ICD-10 and CPT codes and handles pre-visit prep and post-visit orders and referrals. The same engine is sold to health systems as Commure Ambient AI, with optional human documentation support.

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Pricing

Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 14 Oct 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.

Ambient AI
Quoted on request
Self-service AI scribing
  • Specialty-aligned notes within seconds
  • Documentation and coding cues
  • Native EHR integration
Ambient Assist
Quoted on request
AI drafts refined by documentation specialists
  • Expert editing and quality assurance
  • Coding support
  • Orders, labs, referrals and after-visit summaries
Ambient Live
Quoted on request
Dedicated support for high-complexity care
  • Pre-, intra- and post-visit coverage
  • Complex procedural and multi-speaker visits
Ambient+
Quoted on request
Ambient AI with autonomous coding and dictation
  • Autonomous CPT and ICD-10 coding
  • Integrated dictation
  • Modifier and charge header generation

What you can produce with Athelas Ambient AI

  • Structured clinical notes drafted from visits recorded in 60+ languages
  • ICD-10 and CPT code and modifier suggestions from the documentation
  • Pre-visit summaries pulling in intake forms, records and care gaps
  • Post-visit orders, referrals, referral letters and after-visit summaries
  • Optional human documentation support through Ambient Assist and Ambient Live
  • Bi-directional EHR integration with web and mobile sign-off
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RECATOOLS Verdict

Athelas Ambient AI is broader than a plain scribe: it drafts the note, suggests codes and modifiers, and handles pre-visit summaries and post-visit orders and referrals, backed by Commure's billing stack and options for human documentation support. Its scale claims, 40 million encounters a year and HCA and Tenet as customers, are the vendor's, and a KLAS First Look rests on a small sample.

Pricing is quote-only and the free trial is undefined. Best for US practices that also want Commure's billing or Air EHR; for others, a UK Class I registration since September 2026 is the first sign of reach beyond the US.

Desk research by RECATOOLS from public sources, written with AI assistance — not a hands-on test. How we review

What we found

Athelas Ambient AI is the ambient scribe sold under the Athelas brand by Athelas Inc., which is wholly owned by Commure. The two companies merged in October 2023 with Athelas co-founder Tanay Tandon as chief executive, and in October 2024 Commure completed its roughly $139 million purchase of the scribe company Augmedix. The same engine is sold to health systems as Commure Ambient AI, while athelas.com pitches it to independent practices and specialty groups alongside its Air EHR, billing service and voice agents. Earlier versions of this page called it the renamed Athelas Scribe; no current page supports that, and the old scribe documentation site no longer resolves.

The scribe records the visit in more than 60 languages, drafts a structured note, suggests ICD-10 and CPT codes with modifiers, and covers pre-visit summaries, intake and care prompts as well as post-visit orders, referrals and after-visit summaries. Commure sells it at four levels: self-service Ambient AI, Ambient Assist with documentation specialists refining drafts, Ambient Live with dedicated support for complex procedural care, and Ambient+, which adds autonomous coding and dictation. Commure says it integrates with more than 60 EHRs.

The figures on the Athelas page are the vendor's: 40 million encounters scribed a year, notes closed in 43 seconds on average, an 81% cut in documentation time and 25% fewer denials. HCA and Tenet are named customers. A KLAS First Look report found every surveyed customer would buy again, from what Commure calls a select sample. A 93.3 score quoted here earlier could not be found, and adoption and revenue figures from case studies could not be traced; all were removed.

No prices are published. A "Try Ambient AI for free" link opens the Commure Ambient app without stating what the trial includes. In September 2026 Commure Ambient AI was CE-marked and MHRA-registered as a Class I device and offered in the UK with local data residency. There is no ASEAN offering.

Compiled by RECATOOLS from public sources: vendor documentation and pricing, code repositories and published reporting.

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