What Brevara Does — and Does Not Do

What Brevara is

Brevara is documentation software for therapists that turns your written session notes — clinical shorthand, abbreviations, full sentences, or any mix — into complete, billing-ready therapy notes with appropriate CPT billing codes and CMS 8-minute rule unit calculations. There is no format to learn.

Brevara is not an ambient scribe. It does not listen to or record sessions — there is no audio, and there is no patient in the room with the software. The therapist writes after the visit; Brevara writes the note.

Who it’s for

Occupational therapists (OT), certified occupational therapy assistants (COTA), physical therapists (PT), and physical therapist assistants (PTA). Brevara covers outpatient, home health, and skilled nursing facility (SNF) documentation contexts, and is built with solo and mobile therapists in mind.

What Brevara does

You type the visit as session details that contain no patient-identifying information — clinical shorthand, abbreviations, full sentences, or any mix. Brevara returns the finished note. Verified capabilities:

• Appropriate CPT billing code detection from your written input.
• CMS 8-minute rule unit calculation inside every note.
• A free public 8-minute rule calculator supporting both the CMS rule and the AMA Rule of Eights. Inside the app, notes calculate under the CMS rule; the calculator offers both methodologies.
• Smart note-type detection — eval, daily, or discharge, read from what you wrote.
• Follow-up editing — fix a detail or add a time without starting over.
• Discipline-appropriate language — terminology, supervision language for COTA and PTA notes, and code selection scoped to the discipline you set at signup.
• Homebound toggle for home health — therapist-controlled, decided per visit.
• PDPM-aware SNF language framed around Section GG functional areas.
• Ephemeral notes — nothing you document is written to Brevara’s servers; generated notes exist only in your browser session.

What Brevara does not do

• Speech-language pathology is not currently supported. Brevara has no SLP documentation today.
• Brevara does not record audio and does not listen ambiently. It is not a scribe.
• Brevara has no built-in dictation. It doesn’t have its own microphone yet — your phone or computer’s built-in dictation into the input box works fine, and Brevara reads the result exactly as if you’d typed it.
• Brevara has no EHR integrations, by design. It generates clean text you copy and paste into any EHR.
• Brevara is not a HIPAA-covered platform and is not HIPAA-compliant. No Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) are offered. Do not enter patient-identifying information.
• Brevara stores no notes on its servers. Generated notes exist only in your browser session.
• Brevara does not guarantee payer acceptance. The therapist reviews every note and is responsible for the billing.

How it’s built

Engineered, not improvised. Every version of Brevara’s note engine runs against a locked battery of test cases before it ships. The documentation rules come from CMS source material — the 8-minute rule for timed codes, PDPM and Section GG for SNF, homebound criteria for home health. And licensed and certified therapists review the output — a review that started with the first version and continues with every improvement.