Missouri
Transcription Services in St. Louis, MO
Medical and legal transcription for St. Louis practices, from $1.75 per minute. Dictate in the browser or upload a recording — or meet us at the St. Louis office by appointment.
ScribeForms — St. Louis501 N BroadwaySt. Louis, MO 63102
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.
501 N Broadway, St. Louis, MO 63102
What we do for St. Louis 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 St. Louis
Local transcriptionists
We engage transcriptionists based here, so a reviewer working on a St. Louispractice’s files knows the local institutions and terminology that come up in them.
Partner practices
We work with legal practices in Missouri 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 St. Louis office is available by appointment when meeting here suits you better.
What Missouri law requires
Medical records
Missouri requires a physician to maintain an adequate and complete patient record for each patient, kept for a minimum of seven years from the date the last professional service was provided. RSMo 334.097 also sets out what the record must contain rather than only how long it is held: patient identification, visit dates, current status, physical findings, diagnostic assessment, the plan of care, medications with dosages, and informed consent for procedures. Electronic records are expressly permitted provided the format can be printed for review by the Board of Registration for the Healing Arts. Two things the statute does not do are worth knowing. It sets no period for hospitals, which are held to a longer term under the separate facility rules - so a clinician moving between a hospital and private practice is moving between two different obligations. And unlike Florida or Georgia, it says nothing about what happens when a physician dies, retires, or closes a practice; the duty simply attaches to the licensee or their designee for records under their control.
- RSMo § 334.097 (adequate and complete patient record; seven years from last professional service; electronic records permitted)
- Missouri hospital retention is set separately under facility rules (longer term)
Legal transcripts
Missouri is one of the stricter licensure states, and the restriction applies to the transcript rather than only to the job title. RSMo 485.077 prohibits a judge from appointing an official court reporter who is not certified by the Board of Certified Court Reporter Examiners under Supreme Court Rule 14. The provision that matters more for anyone considering outsourced transcription is the second: no testimony taken by deposition in Missouri may be given in any Missouri court, and no record on appeal from a state administrative agency may include deposition testimony taken in Missouri, unless the deposition was prepared and certified by a certified court reporter - subject only to the narrow exception in Rule 57.03(c). So a transcript intended for filing must come from a CCR, and a transcript produced any other way is useful for review and preparation but cannot be the filed record. Certification has been mandatory for reporters working in the state since 1 January 2002, and the examination covers medical and legal terminology, deposition procedure, transcript preparation, and the Supreme Court rules governing reporter duties.
- RSMo § 485.077 (no appointment of an uncertified official court reporter; Supreme Court Rule 14)
- RSMo § 485.077 (deposition testimony inadmissible unless prepared and certified by a CCR, except Rule 57.03(c))
- Missouri Board of Certified Court Reporter Examiners - CCR certification mandatory since 1 January 2002
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.