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                                 July 3, 1996


Medaphis Corporation
2700 Cumberland Parkway
Suite 300
Atlanta, Georgia 30339

             Re: Medaphis Corporation -- Form S-8 Registration Statement

Gentlemen:

     We have acted as counsel to Medaphis Corporation, a Delaware corporation
(the "Company"), in connection with the preparation of a Registration Statement
on Form S-8 (the "Registration Statement") to be filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission relating to 665,000 shares of the Company's voting common
stock, par value $.01 per share ("Common Stock"), to be offered pursuant to the
Medaphis Corporation Non-Qualified Stock Option Plan for Employees of Acquired
Companies (the "Plan").  In so acting, we have examined and relied upon such
records, documents, certificates and other instruments as in our judgment are
necessary or appropriate to form the basis for the opinion set forth below.  In
all such examinations, we have assumed the genuineness of signatures on
original documents and the conformity to such original documents of all copies
submitted to us as certified, conformed or photographic copies, and as to
certificates of public officials, we have assumed the same to have been
properly given and to be accurate.

     This opinion is limited in all respects to the federal laws of the United
States of America and the laws of the State of Delaware, and no opinion is
expressed with respect to the laws of any other jurisdiction or any effect
which such laws may have on the opinion expressed below.

     Based upon the foregoing and subject to the limitations, qualifications
and assumptions set forth in this letter, we are of the opinion that the shares
of Common Stock to be issued upon the exercise of stock options ("Options")
granted under the Plan are duly authorized and when the Options are exercised
in accordance with their terms and the terms of the Plan (including the payment
of any consideration therefor), the shares of Common Stock so issuable will be
validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.




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Medaphis Corporation
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     In rendering the opinion in the preceding paragraph concerning the
validity and nonassessability of the shares of Common Stock issuable upon the
exercise of Options, we have assumed (i) the shares of Common Stock so issuable
continue to be duly authorized on the dates of exercise, (ii) on the dates of
exercise, the Options will have been duly executed, issued, and delivered, will
constitute the legal, valid, and binding obligations of the Company, and will
(subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, and other laws affecting the
enforceability of creditors' rights generally) be enforceable as to the Company
in accordance with their terms, and (iii) no change occurs in the applicable
law or the pertinent facts.


     We consent to the filing of this opinion as an Exhibit to the Registration
Statement.

                                    Very truly yours,


                                    /s/ King & Spalding