Ambiki Release Note: Payment Flexibility & Billing Accuracy Updates
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Samuel Okoth 4 days ago
Date: 07/31/2025
Summary by Persona (Grouped by Role)
👩⚕️ Clinicians / Therapists
- No workflow changes, but more accurate billing statuses and back-dated payments reduce downstream questions and delays.
🧑💼 Admins
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Back-Dated Payments: Enter payments dated before an invoice—Ambiki auto-adjusts the invoice date to match.
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Cleaner Statuses: “Paid less than expected” now shows only when an expected amount exists.
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Stripe Method Fix: Credit-card payment methods can be added again without errors.
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Claim Generation Fix: Outdated payment-method locks removed—reload the treatment report to send claims.
💳 Billers / Guardians
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Back-Dated Payments: Cleaner ledgers when recording historical payments.
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Actionable Statuses: Reduced noise in treatment-report views means quicker focus on real discrepancies.
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Stripe & Claim Fixes: Fewer payment-method errors and smoother claim submissions.
🚀 New Feature – Enter Payments Before Invoice Date (Automatically Adjusted)
👥 Audience: Admins, Billers
🛠️ Steps to Access: No special permissions or feature flags required. Available to all users entering payments.
📢 What’s New? You can now enter a payment with a date that is earlier than the related invoice date. If this happens, Ambiki will automatically adjust the invoice date backward to match the payment date. This update supports cleaner ledgers and fewer interruptions when backdating payments.
🛠️ Steps to Access: No special permissions or feature flags required. Available to all users entering payments.
📢 What’s New? You can now enter a payment with a date that is earlier than the related invoice date. If this happens, Ambiki will automatically adjust the invoice date backward to match the payment date. This update supports cleaner ledgers and fewer interruptions when backdating payments.
🚀 New Feature - “Paid Less Than Expected” Now Shown Only When Relevant
👥 Audience: Admins, Billing Team Members
🛠️ Steps to Access: No special permissions or feature flags required. The update applies automatically in treatment report views.
📢 What’s New? The treatment-report status “Paid less than expected” will now appear only if an expected amount > 0 is configured for that payer, reducing noise and focusing attention on actionable discrepancies.
🛠️ Steps to Access: No special permissions or feature flags required. The update applies automatically in treatment report views.
📢 What’s New? The treatment-report status “Paid less than expected” will now appear only if an expected amount > 0 is configured for that payer, reducing noise and focusing attention on actionable discrepancies.
🛠️ Fix - Stripe Credit Card Payment Method Prefill Fix
👥 Audience: Admins
📅 Date Range Affected: 7/29 – 7/30
❗ Issue: Customers were unable to create a new Stripe credit card payment method because the start-date field wasn’t prefilled.
✅ Action Steps: Admins can once again add credit-card payment methods for patients without issue.
📅 Date Range Affected: 7/29 – 7/30
❗ Issue: Customers were unable to create a new Stripe credit card payment method because the start-date field wasn’t prefilled.
✅ Action Steps: Admins can once again add credit-card payment methods for patients without issue.
🛠️ Fix - Claim Generation Payment-Method Lock Fix
👥 Audience: Admins and Billing Staff
📅 Date Range Affected: Treatment reports whose DOS fell during periods when incorrect payment methods were active and later changed or deleted
❗ Issue: Users were unable to send or generate claims because the system locked in outdated or deleted payment methods.
✅ Action Steps: Reload the treatment report for any claim showing a payment-method sequencing error.
🔜 What’s Next? We’re building a manual selector so you can reorder or swap payment methods for any treatment report when edge cases arise.
Thank you for choosing Ambiki.
📅 Date Range Affected: Treatment reports whose DOS fell during periods when incorrect payment methods were active and later changed or deleted
❗ Issue: Users were unable to send or generate claims because the system locked in outdated or deleted payment methods.
✅ Action Steps: Reload the treatment report for any claim showing a payment-method sequencing error.
🔜 What’s Next? We’re building a manual selector so you can reorder or swap payment methods for any treatment report when edge cases arise.
Thank you for choosing Ambiki.