the oncology business institute

The Oncology Business Institute is a landmark collaboration of the Oncology Management Consulting Group of Pennsylvania and Oncology Metrics of Texas. TOBI brings together OMC Group’s decades of national experience in developing, running and advising successful hospital cancer centers and Oncology Metrics’ unparalleled expertise in data collection and benchmark analysis.

For the first time, hospital cancer centers have access to truly applicable information and resources designed specifically to answer their most frequent and most challenging questions about their financial and operational performance. TOBI supports hospital cancer centers in making sound operational, financial and strategic decisions to become true centers of excellence.

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Until now, there was no source for information that properly addressed the nuances of outpatient oncology. Never before has such a wealth of knowledge and skill been harnessed with the express purpose of addressing the needs of hospital cancer center administrators.

TOBI will enable you to:

• Establish realistic and attainable production expectations

• Determine optimal staffing throughout the cancer center

• Learn how the best performing centers get so efficient

• Track and trend performance by disease group or by resource

• Monitor financial metrics for strategic decision making

• Network with top performing centers

• Share best practices with peer centers

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The Key to BENCHMARKS specifically for hospital-based cancer centers.

• See your performance compared to others

• Designed by oncology experts• Simple to participate• Complimentary coding and billing review

- Nurses per chair- Therapists per linac- Registrars per case- Encounters per case- And much, much more!

What is The Oncology Business Institute?

TOBI is a membership organization dedicated to providing administrators of hospital outpatient cancer centers with the information they need to ensure maximum performance through comparative benchmarking, networking, and education.

Our benchmarks are designed by oncology experts who understand your need for relevant data points that are current and applicable:• Staffing for infusion, radiation, registry,

clinical trials, etc. expressed in terms of program size, equipment, encounter volumes and other measures to allow for applicability to your program.

• Resources for your departments: number of infusion chairs, linear accelerators, etc.

• Productivity metrics: number of patients, treatments/encounters, accruals, case abstractions.

• Financial benchmarks specific to oncology: charges, revenue, etc.

Our educational offerings are based on the members’ requests and driven by their data.

• Topics are timely, relevant, and backed by quantitative data.

• Best practices are shared by real centers, not fictitious institutions.

• Sessions are interactive among the members for maximum value.

Networking is greatly enhanced when everyone is speaking the same language. Because all TOBI members’ performance has been measured in precisely the same way, “apples to apples” conversations and sharing of information is guaranteed.


Finally, oncology administrators have adedicated source that properly addresses the nuances of outpatient oncology and the differences in program size and scope. TOBI Benchmarks are based on all member organizations-notjustahandfuloflargehospitals willing and able to pay a premiumfee. They are updated annually and will neverbere-circulatedorre-packaged.Ourbenchmarks require only a simple annualsurveyquestionnaire-neveratime-consuming, exhaustive data request. TOBI benchmarks are expressed in straightforward, useful terms – easily understood and applied.

The Oncology Business Institute brings to its members clear and usable comparative data on staffing, production, and financial performance, using a simple annual survey and a completely transparent electronic data submission process that requires no additional staff time for your institution. Our members receive annual reports comparing their own data to the aggregate membership data and showing each member’s ranking among the members.

What do TOBI members receive?

•Complimentarycodingandbillingreview(valuedat$15,000.00)

•Annualreportofyourperformance compared to your peers:

- Infusion service volumes and productivity per FTE nurse, per infusion chair, per treated cancer patient, per new analytic case for breast, lung, colorectal, prostate, all other, and total cases

- Radiation service volumes and productivity, per hour of linear accelerator operation, per FTE therapist, per FTE physicist, per treated cancer patient, per new analytic case for breast, lung, colorectal, prostate, all other, and total cases

- Support service volumes and productivity (Social work, Tumor Registry, Clinical Trials),pertreatedcancerpatient,pernewanalytic case for breast, lung, colorectal, prostate, all other, and total cases

- Charge volume per treated cancer patient, per new analytic case for breast, lung, colorectal, prostate, all other, and total cases

- Accesstoeducationalopportunitiesviainternet and conferences

- Sharing best practices with other members

- Peer-to-peerconnectionsfornetworking


Why choose TOBI membership?

• Created by experienced oncology administrators who understand your needs.

• Sensible, relevant clear measures, rather than generic or mysterious terms.

• Your performance is calculated for you, no need to guess how and what to measure.

• TOBI information is based on all member organizations,notjustahandfuloflargeinstitutions

• TOBI benchmarks are updated annually and never recirculated or repackaged

• Data submission is automated and the annual survey is a simple questionnaire.

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Q: What is The Oncology Business Institute?

A: TOBIisamembershiporganizationdedicatedtoproviding administrators of hospital outpatient cancer centers with the information they need to ensure maximum performance through comparative benchmarking, networking, and education. TOBI benchmarks are designed by oncology experts who understand the need for relevant data points that are current and applicable: Staffing for infusion, radiation, registry, clinical trials-Resourcesforcancercenterdepartments-Productivitymetrics-Financialbenchmarks.Additionally,theeducationalofferingsandprofessional networking are based on the members’ requests and driven by their data and are greatly enhanced because all TOBI members’ performance is measured in precisely the same way.

Q: How is TOBI different from the Solucient data we are using now?

A: TOBIbenchmarksaredefinedinveryclear,intuitiveterms for oncology instead of confusing or highly general measures like “timed work units” or “procedures.” TOBI benchmarks also include more than staffing per the defined service volume – we look at physical resources like “per chemo chair” and “per linac” as well as at case volumes from the tumor registry.

Q: What are the differences between TOBI and the Oncology Roundtable?

A: Wecalculateyourperformanceforyouascomparedtotherestofthemembershipratherthanjustshowingyoutheperformanceofjustoneinstitution.AndTOBIdataisupdatedeveryyearsoyoucantrenditandnotjustrelyonaone-timedatapoint.Our education and networking topics are chosen by you the members rather than by our staff members. Additionally,allTOBIstaffersarelong-timeoncologyexperts, several with decades of hospital specific expertise!

Q: Is it difficult to submit our data to TOBI?

A: Notatall.Thereisasimplequestionnaire–about20questions–eachyearforyoutofillout.Themaindata comes from an electronic upload from your billing system and most systems already have the report we need built in.



FAQs - Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Why do we need to have a chart review?

A: TOBI’ssuccess(andthatofourmembers!)dependson receiving good, solid data from our members and we all know how hard it can be to bill oncology appropriately. So we give each new member a free chart review to be sure that the data we receive is “clean.”

Q: Is our data private?

A: Absolutely.Wheneverthedataispresentedinanymanner, the individual members’ identity is masked completely.

Q: How often is the data updated?

A: TOBIbenchmarkdatawillberunannuallyalthoughin the future we may move to more frequent periods if the membership wishes.

Q: What if I can’t join until late in the year because of my budget cycle?

A: Notaproblem!Aslongasyourmembershipbecomes active and the data can be transferred before analysis begins, you can be included.

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