Exhibit 5.1

	650 Town Center Drive, 20th Floor
	Costa Mesa, California 92626-1925
	Tel: +1.714.540.1235 Fax: +1.714.755.8290
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	Austin	Milan
	Beijing	Moscow
	Boston	Munich
	Brussels	New York
	Century City	Orange County
	Chicago	Paris
September 20, 2021	Dubai	Riyadh
	Düsseldorf	San Diego
	Frankfurt	San Francisco
	Hamburg	Seoul
	Hong Kong	Shanghai
NextGen Healthcare, Inc.	Houston	Silicon Valley
3525 Piedmont Rd., NE	London	Singapore
Building 6, Suite 700	Los Angeles	Tokyo
Atlanta, Georgia 30305	Madrid	Washington, D.C.

Re: Registration Statement on Form S-8

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as special counsel to NextGen Healthcare, Inc., a California corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the proposed issuance of 1,500,000 shares of Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Shares”), pursuant to the Company’s 2021 Employment Inducement Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”). The Shares are included in a registration statement on Form S-8 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on September 20, 2021 (the “Registration Statement”). This opinion is being furnished in connection with the requirements of Item 601(b)(5) of Regulation S-K under the Act, and no opinion is expressed herein as to any matter pertaining to the contents of the Registration Statement or related prospectuses, other than as expressly stated herein with respect to the issue of the Shares.

As such counsel, we have examined such matters of fact and questions of law as we have considered appropriate for purposes of this letter. With your consent, we have relied upon certificates and other assurances of officers of the Company and others as to factual matters without having independently verified such factual matters. We are opining herein as to the General Corporation Law of the State of California, and we express no opinion with respect to any other laws.

Subject to the foregoing and the other matters set forth herein, it is our opinion that, as of the date hereof, when the Shares shall have been duly registered on the books of the transfer agent and registrar therefor in the name or on behalf of the purchasers, and have been issued by the Company against payment therefor in the circumstances contemplated by the Plan, and assuming in each case that the individual grants or awards under the Plan are duly authorized by all necessary corporate action of the Company and duly granted or awarded and exercised in accordance with the requirements of law and the Plan, the issue and sale of the Shares will have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action of the Company, and the Shares will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable. In rendering the foregoing opinion, we have assumed that the Company will comply with all applicable notice requirements regarding uncertificated shares provided in the General Corporation Law of the State of California.

This opinion is for your benefit in connection with the Registration Statement and may be relied upon by you and by persons entitled to rely upon it pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Act. We consent to your filing this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. In giving such consent, we do not thereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.

Very truly yours,

/s/ Latham & Watkins LLP