Total Benchmark Solution, LLCTotal Benchmark Solution, LLC (TBS) is a leading provider of benchmarking, decision support, and consulting services for healthcare organizations throughout North America. TBS is based in Steamboat Springs, Colorado and South Bend, Indiana and was founded by recognized healthcare benchmarking and quality experts Bradley Petersen and John O'Brien. TBS's vision is to be the industry standard for measuring and benchmarking the cost, staffing, quality and satisfaction of healthcare services. The firm's benchmarking and consulting services increase clients' operations effectiveness through benchmarking focused performance improvement initiatives to manage costs, improved customer service, and enhance the quality of patient care. Please visit Total Benchmark Solution, LLC for more information. TBS’ wide variety of benchmarking and consulting services includes the following which are detailed further below:
Quality Benchmark SolutionHigher demand for quality and payer reimbursements has driven healthcare organizations to strive towards perfection. TBS’ Quality Benchmark Solution (QBS) gives these organizations a tool to analyze industry standard and custom quality measures, potential payer reimbursements, and organizational best demonstrated practices. QBS Quality Measure AnalysisTBS analyzes data submitted by your organization for public and private measures using its proprietary benchmark solution which provides peer comparisons and intuitive reporting methodologies. Detailed analysis and assessment can be made for your organization using the following Quality Benchmark Solution reports:
Which can be run for any time period (Monthly, Quarterly or Annually) using industry standard or custom quality measures. All Quality Benchmark Solution reports use easy to read tables and graphics to simplify analysis of organizational data. Please visit Quality Benchmark Solution for more information. QBS Pay for PerformancePayers including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid are establishing pay for performance programs. Healthcare organizations working to achieve maximum performance and payer reimbursement need to know their position and what improvements can to be made to achieve this. TBS’ Pay for Performance reports allow your organization to analyze performance versus net revenue in order to estimate the pay for performance reimbursements that your organization will be receiving. Please visit Pay for Performance for more information. QBS Best Demonstrated PracticeBest Demonstrated Practices (BDPs) are what TBS’ and your Health System’s “Best Healthcare” organizations complete in order to achieve maximum performance for any given set of quality measures and care areas. TBS reporting allows an organization to:
Please visit Best Demonstrated Practice for more information. Healthcare Information Systems Benchmark SolutionTotal Benchmark Solution, LLC’s (TBS) solution is the first and only continuous quality improvement (CQI) solution available to effectively measure and benchmark the costs, quality and satisfaction of healthcare information systems and technology. TBS utilizes its proprietary activity based benchmarking approach to determine the costs of each application and infrastructure area and benchmarks those costs based upon key business volumes for “apples-to-apples” comparisons. TBS is the only tool that allows the management team to understand and evaluate the information systems value equation in terms that they can understand and act upon. TBS also collects information from a series of surveys to measure, evaluate and benchmark application quality and satisfaction, information services quality and satisfaction and information system staff culture. TBS also provides indexed salary analysis and benchmarks for over ninety (90) standard information systems job codes. Please visit Healthcare Information Systems Benchmark Solution for more information. Revenue Cycle Benchmark SolutionToday’s shortening budgets and higher demand to cut costs has brought hospitals to search for more areas where money can be saved. Total Benchmark Solution, LLC (TBS) has discovered potential in the untapped resource, Revenue Cycle. Revenue Cycle is the hidden gem where an organization can find money to help with demanding budgets and lack of revenue. TBS’ Revenue Cycle Benchmark Solution assists in benchmarking revenue cycle so that hospitals can observe its uses of monetary resources allowing well-informed changes and the monitoring of the effects from those changes. In most cases a hospital’s revenue cycle can be revamped to save an incredible amount of money. TBS’ Revenue Cycle Benchmark Solution also allows organizations to benchmark Revenue Cycle Best Demonstrated Practices and Performance Measures against other hospitals within an organization and peer hospitals. Please visit Revenue Cycle Benchmark Solution for more information. Best HealthcareTBS loaded the data obtained from CMS into its proprietary statistical benchmarking application to provide the rankings of hospitals, health systems, long term care facilities and home health agencies within various peer groups. TBS determined the best organizations by benchmarking and ranking all hospitals nationwide on each of the CMS measures that they submitted data for. TBS utilized its Quality Benchmark Solution application to provide interactive comparisons of these organizations within multiple peer groups and assist healthcare providers in targeting areas for improvement. To view a list of Total Benchmark Solution's Best Healthcare organizations as determined by CMS Hospital Compare Data please visit one of the following links, enter a zip code and distance willing to travel from that zip code:
Total Benchmark Solution Quality AwardsTotal Benchmark Solution LLC (TBS) has analyzed the quality measure scores that healthcare organizations submitted to CMS. Based upon TBS’s ranking and benchmarking methodology, TBS has announced the Best Acute Care Hospitals, Best Health Systems, Best Long Term Care Facilities and Best Home Health Care Organizations for CMS quality measure data. For more information and a complete list of the TBS Award winners please visit the following:
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