# Surgical Notes

> Surgical Notes provides technology-enabled billing, coding, transcription, and chart management for US ambulatory surgery centers and surgical hospitals. Founded in Dallas in 1997, it became part of Surgical Information Systems in November 2024. Its products include SNBilling, SNChart, SNCoder, and ScanChart ASC.

- **Founded:** 1997
- **Headquarters:** Dallas, United States
- **Founders:** Jeff Blankinship (Co-founder; former CEO and president), Courtney Blankinship (Co-founder)
- **Products:** SNBilling, SNChart, SNCoder, ScanChart ASC, ScanChart CBO
- **Notable:** Reported Rush SurgiCenter days to bill falling from 10 to 5 and days to pay from 52 to 28 within six months (2020 customer release)., Announced completion of a SOC 2 Type II examination covering security, availability, and confidentiality in November 2022., Earned a Dallas/Fort Worth Top Workplaces 2022 honor based on employee survey feedback.

## Products & services

- **SNBilling** — Full-service ASC revenue cycle management, including insurance verification and authorization, claims, accounts receivable follow-up, and patient billing.
- **SNChart** — Web-based transcription management and mobile dictation, report review, editing, and signature workflows; refreshed portal went live in October 2018.
- **SNCoder** — Full-service medical coding and coding audits for ambulatory surgery centers.
- **ScanChart ASC** — Chart preparation and document management with customizable forms, barcode indexing, chart audits, digital storage, and retrieval.
- **ScanChart CBO** — Central business office workflow automation used alongside ScanChart ASC.
- **Gemini coding solutions partnership** — 2023 agreement to use Aidéo Gemini AutoCode in coding operations and exclusively resell Gemini Coder Platform to larger ASC management companies in the announced segment.

## Achievements

- Reported Rush SurgiCenter days to bill falling from 10 to 5 and days to pay from 52 to 28 within six months (2020 customer release).
- Announced completion of a SOC 2 Type II examination covering security, availability, and confidentiality in November 2022.
- Earned a Dallas/Fort Worth Top Workplaces 2022 honor based on employee survey feedback.
- Acquired by Surgical Information Systems in November 2024.

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — Parent SIS introduced SIS Scribe and explicitly listed SNChart Transcription as an additional documentation option; SIS reported serving over 2,900 ASCs.
- **2026-04** — Parent SIS named John Lynch president of Revenue Cycle Services and Douglas Rempfer president of SIS Software.
- **2025-10** — Capstreet retrospective confirmed the November 15, 2024 sale of Surgical Notes to Nordic Capital-owned SIS and three add-on acquisitions during its investment.
- **2024-11** — SIS publicly announced its acquisition of Surgical Notes on November 19.

## Links

- Website: https://www.surgicalnotes.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/surgical-notes
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/SISfirst
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Surgical+Information+Systems/75322028321

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Last updated: 2026-10-23