Judith J. Baker,
PhD, CPA, is Executive Director of Resource Group, Ltd., a Dallas-based health care
consulting firm. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration at
the University of Missouri, Columbia and her Master of Liberal Studies with a
concentration in Business Management at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. She earned her
Master of Arts and Doctorate in Human and Organizational Systems, with a concentration in
costing systems, at the Fielding Institute, Santa Barbara, California. She is an adjunct
faculty member at the Case Western Reserve University Frances Payne Bolton School of
Nursing.
Judith has over thirty years experience in health
care and consults on numerous health care systems and costing problems. She has worked
with health care systems, costing, and reimbursement throughout her career. As a HCFA
subcontractor she assists in validation of costs for new programs and for rate setting and
consults on cost report design.
Judith has written over 40 articles, manuals, and
books. She is Consulting Editor for Aspen Publishers, Inc. Her latest books are Activity-Based
Costing and Activity-Based Management for Health Care, Prospective Payment for Long-Term
Care: An Annual Guide, and Prospective Payment for Home Health Agencies (all
Aspen publications). She is co-editor of the quarterly Journal of Healthcare Finance.
R.W. Baker, JD, is Managing Partner of
Resource Group, Ltd., a Dallas-based health care consulting firm. He has more than 30
years of experience in health care and has designed, directed, and administered numerous
financial impact studies for health care providers. His recent studies have centered
around facility-specific MDS data collection and analysis. He and his firm have
subcontracted to the HCFA Nursing Home Case Mix and Quality Demonstration from 1990 to
present.
R.W. is the editor of continuing professional
education seminar manuals and training manuals for facility personnel and for research
staff members. He is a Consulting Editor with Aspen Publishers, Inc. and is co-author of A
Step-by-Step Guide to the Minimum Data Set (Aspen Publishers, Inc. 1999).
