Unapplied Encounter Credits Job

Field	Description
Encounter Location	Indicate one or more Service Location for which you want to process the unapplied encounter
Encounter Rendering	Indicate the Encounter Rendering physician for which you want the unapplied encounter credits to be processed.
Transaction Codes	Indicate the original transaction code applied to the unapplied encounter payment
Encounter Date From/To	Indicate the encounter date as billable date on encounter maintenance.
Process Options	Indicate the process options from either of the following: Process encounters where patient amount = unapplied amount Process unapplied with patient balance
BBP Post Batch	Indicate the patient type for which you want the encounters converted.
Job runtime alert setting (minutes)	Indicate the number of minutes you want the application to wait before sending out a job runtime alert email.
Job runtime alert email	Enter the email address of the person or persons to whom the application sends the job runtime alert.

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Bill Encounters Job

You can create the job to charge the rebilled or unbilled encounters and print or export the Claim Production report. Field Description Bill Status Indicates the billing status of the encounters. This displays the following values: Rebill Unbilled Financial Class Indicates the financial classes for the encounter. Primary Payer Indicates the individual primary payer for billing encounters based on which the job processes claims. Billable Date From/To Indicates the billable date range within which the job automatically bills encounters. Rendering Physician Indicates one or more referring physicians. Patient Type Indicates the patient types for the encounter. This field displays the following values: Dental Sliding Fee Study Patient Service Location Indicates one or more service locations for the encounter. Include Records in a Billing Hold? Indicate whether you want the job to include encounter records in a Billing Hold status or not. Include Records Without Charges? Indicate whether you

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Converting In-Progress to Unbilled Job

You can create the job to process the in-progress to unbilled by configuring the fields as described in the following table. Field Description Financial Class Indicate the Financial Class for which you want the encounters converted. Billable Date From/To Indicate the billable date range for which you want the encounters converted. Rendering Physician Indicate the Rendering Physician for which you want the encounters converted. Patient Type Indicate the Patient Type for which you want the encounters converted. Service Location Indicate the Service Location(s) for which you want the encounters converted. Include Records in Billing Hold? Indicate whether you want the conversion to include records in Billing Hold. Include Records Without Charges? Indicate whether you want the conversion to include records that are without charges. Encounter Specific Indicate whether you want the conversion to be specific to specified encounters. Encounter Created By Indicate whether you want the conversion

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Encounter Collection Letters Job

The Encounter Collection Letters job will nightly process the account collection letter and prints or exports it in the specified location. You can create the job to download and export the letter by configuring the fields as described in the following table. Field Description Collection Letter Action Indicates whether you want to print or export the encounter collection letters. Collection Letter Name Indicates the collection letter you want to apply to the job. Update "Collection Letter Sent" Date? Indicate whether you want the job to update the collection letter sent date when it executes. Upload Export File To NextGenEDI? Indicate whether you want to upload the collection letter export file to NextGen® EDI. Job runtime alert setting (minutes) Indicate the number of minutes you want the application to wait before sending out a job runtime alert email. Job runtime alert email Enter the email address of the person or persons to whom the application sends the job runtime alert. Parent

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Statements Job

You can create a job to generate and export statements. Warning: If a Statements job fails to export the file, NextGen® Background Business Processor does not export the statement file, even if it looks acceptable. When a Statements export job fails, it is probable that NextGen® Background Business Processor has not updated the Next Statement Dates. This could result in duplicate statements in the next statement run. Configure the following fields: Field Description Statement Action Indicates whether you want to print or export the statement. Require Account Minimum Statement Amount Indicates the account minimum statement amount to display on the statements. This field displays one of the following: Patient Balance Only Patient + Insurance Balance Account Minimum Statement Amount Indicates a dollar value to serve as the minimum statement amount. Balances less than this amount do not display on the statements. Account Maximum Statement Amount Indicates a dollar value to serve as the max

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Recall Letter Job

Configure the following fields: Field Description Recall Letter Action Indicates whether you want to print or export the recall letters. Recall Letter Name Indicates the collection letter name you want to apply to the job. Recall Letters Recall Plan Indicates one or more recall plans for the job. Recall Letters Resource Indicates one or more recall letter resources for the job. Recall Letters Event Indicates one or more recall letter events for the job. Recall Letters Location Indicates one or more service locations for the job. Include Expired Patients? Indicate whether you want the job to include expired patients when it generates the recall letters. Update "Last Mailing" Date Indicate whether you want the job to update the Recall Letter Sent" date when it executes. Upload Export File To NextGenEDI? Indicate whether or not you want to upload the recall letter export file to NextGen® EDI. Job runtime alert setting (minutes) Indicate the number of minutes you want the application to wa

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Process Pending Charges Job

The Process Pending Charges job lets you process the pending charges from NextGen® Enterprise PM during the BBP process so that the charges can be billed out automatically. Manual process for pending charges is no longer required to process NextGen® Enterprise EHR charges into the NextGen® Enterprise PM system. To configure the settings for the job, complete the following fields: Field Description Service Location Indicates the service location of the practice to which you want to restrict the eligibility requests job. Rendering Physician Indicates the rendering physician that you want to apply to the job. Service Date From/To You can set a pending charges creation date range for the job. Indicate the From and To dates that mark the time frame during which the pending charges should get processed or rejected. Pending Action Indicate whether you want the job to either Process or Reject the pending charges. Job runtime alert setting (minutes) Indicate the number of minutes you want the a

Unapplied Encounter Credits Job

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