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<div>JOB TITLE: Physical Therapy Aide 
LOCATION: Rockville, MD 
HOURS: 4 DAY WORK WEEK - Monday - Thursday (Full-Time) 
PAY: $21.50/hr 
FREE PARKING AT ALL 7 OFFICE LOCATIONS! 

 
BENEFITS: 
Health/Dental/Vision Insurance
FSA 
HSA 
Life Insurance 
401K Contributions 
Disability Insurance 
Paid Time Off 
Every Friday off 
Tuition Assistance 
Free Parking 
Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave 
STD/LTD/ADD Insurance (short-term disability, long-term disability and accidental death and dismemberment insurance)
Job Title: Physical Therapy Aide
Reports To: Reports directly to the Director/Assistant Director of Rehabilitation or to another PT if the Director/Assistant Director of Rehabilitation is not present
Supervision Exercised: none
Position Summary:<ul><li>
Performs office maintenance tasks including scheduling appointments, verifying insurance information, outside physician signature tracking, Medicare usage tracking, mailing, data entry and other duties assigned by the Director of Rehabilitation</li><li>
Prepares patients and equipment for treatment as directed by the physical therapists/physical therapist assistants and in accordance with department standards and the State of Maryland Board of Physical Therapy Examiners or the DC Board of Physical Therapy</li><li>
Instruct patients in proper exercise techniques, under the supervision of a physical therapist</li><li>
Is a full-time position
</li></ul>Key Duties &amp; Responsibilities:<ul><li>
Bring patients back after check-in for therapy</li><li>
Assist patients with their therapeutic exercises</li><li>
Break down and clean work station</li><li>
Retrieve messages left on system overnight and e-mail</li><li>
Answer phones appropriately and take messages when needed</li><li>
Create and distribute home exercise programs to patients, per direction of therapist</li><li>
Produce and total fee tickets/transfer them to the transaction log</li><li>
Complete all financial transactions and processes regarding patient payment and processing</li><li>
Schedule patients</li><li>
Insurance verification</li><li>
Set up patients for treatment and/or on various modalities (i.e. heat, traction, etc&hellip;)</li><li>
Organize, file, and pull charts</li><li>
Follow up on missed patient visits</li><li>
Medicare tracking</li><li>
Check in patients and collect co-pays/balances</li><li>
Enter patient information electronically in NextGen</li><li>
Fax all necessary documents</li><li>
Make copies of schedules for the therapy clinicians</li><li>
Answer incoming calls, schedule appointments</li><li>
Scan/file electronic documents</li><li>
Supervise patients and manage patient flow throughout the clinic</li><li>
Evaluation/Re-evaluation signature tracking from outside physicians</li><li>
Retrieve and deliver mail/interoffice envelopes</li><li>
Assess clinicians&rsquo; schedules daily to ensure full patient scheduling</li><li>
Refill supplies in the clinic/treatment rooms/bathrooms</li><li>
Provide new patient with new patient forms package including registration demographic, welcome letter, financial policy, pain questionnaire, internet form, medicare letter (if necessary), CRISP opt-out, authorization to leave messages form, HIPAA forms, and all other appropriate paperwork</li><li>
Assist Front Office Coordinator, and other Rehabilitation Aides in their duties when necessary.</li><li>
Straighten and maintain waiting room area (i.e: magazines, information sheets)</li><li>
Other Duties as Assigned: The assignment of duties to employees is not limited to the content of this job description. Other tasks and assignments may be related to the work usually assigned to the employee, but in some circumstances may be completely unrelated.</li></ul><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
Weekly duties</h1><ul><li>
Order supplies</li><li>
Clean and disinfect the entire clinic and all equipment</li></ul><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
Monthly duties</h1><ul><li>
Clean the hydrocollator</li><li>
Other duties/projects as assigned by the Director/Assistant Director of Rehabilitation</li><li>
Purge old/discharge charts and return them to the individual therapists&rsquo; inboxes</li></ul><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
Yearly duties</h1><ul><li>
Perform internal audits of policies and practices as directed by the Director/Assistant Director of Rehabilitation, or the Executive Director of Rehabilitation</li></ul>
Qualifications:<ul><li>
High School Diploma or GED
</li><li>Experience preferred, but on-the-job training available</li></ul>
Working Conditions / Other:<ul><li>
Requires full range of motion including handling and assisting patients, manual and finger dexterity, and eye-hand coordination</li><li>
Requires normal visual acuity and hearing</li><li>
Requires prolonged sitting and standing for periods of time as well as bending and stooping</li><li>
Frequent walking, standing, bending and pulling</li><li>
Requires basic organizational, clerical, computer skills and basic interpersonal skills to communicate with patients, families and staff</li><li>
Requires ability to push/pull, lift, or move equipment and physically assist patients with direction and guidance from the therapy clinician</li><li>
Exposure to diseases and other conditions common in a clinic environment</li><li>
This is an in-office position</li><li>
We are committed to enforcing minimum necessary access to our patients&rsquo; PHI by limiting the uses and disclosures of this information within our practice. In order for this employee to carry out his/her job (carry out TPO) in a manner that best serves our patients, the employee needs access the afore mentioned computer &ldquo;role&rdquo;. Role descriptions are explicitly defined in our HIPAA manual. Access to computer information is password protected. Upon termination of an employee, his/her password will be deleted from the system.</li></ul>
Disclaimer:<ul><li>
The foregoing description is not intended and should not be construed to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with the job. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the general nature and level of the job.</li></ul></div>

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