TECH ASSISTANT

Job Duties

• Uses the PACS system to transmit and print/burn CDs of patient imaging studies.
• Transports and assists patients.
• Assists in lifting and moving patients.
• Filing x-ray jackets.
• Prepares charts for Interventional procedures.
• Obtains pertinent information including patient demographics and financial data.
• Enters information into the computer.
• Provides necessary patient preparation for procedures.
• Schedules exams for multiple modalities.
• Phone voice must be friendly and professional.
• Obtains authorizations, provides necessary billing codes for the physician's office, and assesses medical necessity for Medicare patients.
• Obtains required signatures and collects a copy of insurance, Medicare, and medical cards.
• Follows regulations for Medicare Secondary Payer and the three-day rule.
• Performs routine clerical duties such as preparing charts for Interventional procedures.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Skills

• Schedules exams with the MD office.
• Obtains authorization and DI order from the MD’s office.
• Provides necessary CPT codes to the MD’s office.
• Obtains ICD-9 codes for Medicare patients to assess for medical necessity from the MD’s office.
• Interviews and Pre-registers patients for PET/CT, MRI, US & CT to obtain accurate demographic information and enters it in the computer system to initiate quality patient care.
• Provides patients with necessary patient preparation for procedures.
• Remains in contact with diabetic patients who are having PET/CT daily for Glucose reading until the day of the appointment.
• Registers, interviews, and screens patients into the ITS and Meditech systems.
• Coordinates child/adult sedation under anesthesiology with the surgery scheduling department, along with notifying the DI and OR nurses.
• Reviews DI orders for the following day, verifies the order coincides with the exam scheduled.
• Enters x-ray, CT, US, MRI & PET/CT exams into the computer system, prepare charts for Interventional procedures.
• Prepares all necessary paperwork, consents, questionnaires, and identification bands for the following day.
• Prepares CT, US, PET/CT & MRI schedules for the technologist and radiologist.
• Greets, registers, and obtains necessary insurance and identification cards from the patient.
• Determines the patient’s primary and secondary payor and enters it into the computer.
• Initiates and explains all required documents, consents, and registration demographics with the patient and obtains required signatures.
• May transport patients by wheelchair, stretcher, or walking.
• Absists patients by lifting and moving them off and on the X-ray table.
• Answers all telephone calls by stating, “Diagnostic Imaging, how may I direct your call?” promptly and courteously to ensure smooth and accurate communication.
• Performs miscellaneous duties such as filing of X-ray jackets, printing/burning CDs for patient imaging studies.
• Able to demonstrate the knowledge and skill necessary to provide care appropriate to the population served.
• Assists physicians with viewing images on the PACS system.
• Records all subpoenas and legal documentation for the Radiology Department.
• Page 3 Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System Tech Assistant II Assists technologists with patient flow.
• Scans in signed MD orders.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Certifications & Licensure

• Current BLS/Healthcare Provider status as per American Heart Association standards.

Experience

• Two (2) to four (4) years of recent scheduling experience in PT/CT, Angio, CT, US, MRI, and x-ray is required.

Education

• Work requires knowledge generally acquired through a high school education or GED.