Processing Direct NextGen® Pay powered by InstaMed Payments

Patients can make direct payments to the NextGen® Pay powered by InstaMed payment portal for services received. NextGen® Pay powered by InstaMed sends the charges along with any Automatic Payment Collection (APC) charges to the practice in an end-of-day or EOD file. The end-of-day file has a similar format and import process as a patient pay or lockbox file. An end-of-day file is imported using the electronic remittance advice or ERA process that creates automatic batch and transactions entries.

End of day files imported into NextGen are matched using the NextGen Practice ID and Encounter Nbr or Account Number. For account level payments the distribution of payment applies to any encounters with a patient balance using the First In, First Out (FIFO) method. If an encounter-level or account-level payment is greater than the patient balance, the overage is applied as an account-level unapplied payment.