Massachusetts
Transcription Services in Boston, MA
Medical and legal transcription for Boston practices, from $1.75 per minute. Dictate in the browser or upload a recording — or meet us at the Boston office by appointment.
ScribeForms — Boston75 State StBoston, MA 02109
By appointment only
This office is staffed and open by appointment. We work with local transcriptionists and partner legal practices here, and for onboarding we will usually come to your place of business rather than ask you to come to ours.
75 State St, Boston, MA 02109
What we do for Boston clients
Transcription, human-verified or AI-only
Upload audio or video, or dictate straight into the browser. You choose per job whether a person checks the transcript against the recording before you get it, and the finished document records which mode produced it — so you can always tell whether anyone reviewed it.
Dictate a form and get the form back
Upload a blank form, talk through the answers, and we write them into that same document in its own layout — not a summary of what you said. Every extracted field carries a confidence score and the quote from your dictation it came from.
A record that survives an audit
When someone approves a document we store who they were, a SHA-256 digest of exactly the content they saw, the version, and the time — plus how long elapsed between the transcript becoming available and the signature. You can export that certificate and a recipient can verify the digest without us.
Turnaround you pick per job
- 4-Day Standard — $1.75/min, delivered within four business days
- 48-Hour Rush — $2.50/min, delivered within two business days
- 24-Hour Same Day — $3.50/min, delivered within one business day
Human-verified orders carry a minimum: $25 for audio and documents, $30 for video. AI-only orders have no minimum. Recordings with heavy background noise, crosstalk, or strong accents are quoted at the difficult-audio rate, from $2.25 per minute. We tell you before work starts, never after.
How we work in Boston
Local transcriptionists
We engage transcriptionists based here, so a reviewer working on a Bostonpractice’s files knows the local institutions and terminology that come up in them.
Partner practices
We work with legal practices in Massachusetts to serve their clients, which is how we cover this market without asking anyone to send files to another state.
We come to you
For onboarding we would usually rather visit your office than have you visit ours. The Boston office is available by appointment when meeting here suits you better.
What Massachusetts law requires
Medical records
Massachusetts physicians must keep adult patient records for at least seven years from the last patient encounter. For a patient who was a minor at that last visit, records are kept for seven years or until the patient turns 18, whichever is longer. The obligation is unusually persistent: it follows the licensee regardless of status, including physicians who have retired, let a licence lapse, or had one suspended or revoked. Where a physician has died, the executor or administrator of the estate carries the same seven-year duty.
- 243 CMR 2.07 (Board of Registration in Medicine - records)
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 112, § 12CC
Legal transcripts
Massachusetts has no state licensing or certification scheme for court reporters at all, which puts it in a small group with Florida - though for a different reason, since Florida devolves the question to individual circuits while Massachusetts simply does not regulate the credential. Any certification a Massachusetts reporter holds, typically the NCRA Registered Professional Reporter, is voluntary. What the rules do govern is who may take a deposition: under Mass. R. Civ. P. 28, it must be an officer authorised to administer oaths where the examination is held, or a person appointed by the court, and Rule 28 disqualifies anyone who is a relative, employee, attorney, or counsel of a party, a relative or employee of that counsel, or financially interested in the action. In practice reporters hold notary commissions so they can administer the oath themselves, but that is convention rather than a licensing requirement. Since March 2025 the amended Rule 30 also governs remote depositions, allowing oaths to be administered without being physically present provided the officer can see and hear the deponent.
- Mass. R. Civ. P. 28 (persons before whom depositions may be taken; disqualification for interest)
- Mass. R. Civ. P. 30 (as amended effective 10 March 2025 - remote depositions)
- No Massachusetts state licensure for court reporters; NCRA credentials are voluntary
The regulatory information on this page is general background compiled from public primary sources, not legal or compliance advice. Requirements change and vary by jurisdiction and by court. Verify current rules with the relevant authority or your own counsel before relying on them.