The October issue of Health Services Research (HSR) examines the latest research on outcomes and measurement, costs and insurance, and variations in use of services. It also includes a new featured section, “The Best of the 2012 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM).” The articles published in this section were selected from the work submitted to the 2012 ARM call for abstracts. AcademyHealth staff and the HSR editorial team evaluated work from each of the conference themes and invited authors to submit full manuscripts to be considered for publication. The journal anticipates publishing a set of articles annually based on abstracts submitted to the ARM and selected to be outstanding by both reviewers from the ARM themes and HSR's own editorial staff and reviewers. The call for abstracts for the 2013 meeting opens on November 1. The following AcademyHealth members had their work featured in this month’s issue of the journal: The Best of the 2012 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (free) Early Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Health Insurance Coverage of Young Adults Joel C. Cantor, Alan C. Monheit, Derek DeLia and Kristen Lloyd The Effect of State Regulatory Stringency on Nursing Home Quality Dana B. Mukamel and David L. Weimer What Hospital Inpatient Services Contributed the Most to the 2001-2006 Growth in the Cost per Case? Jared Lane K. Maeda, Susan O. Raetzman Outcomes and Measurement Composite Measures for Rating Hospital Quality with Major Surgery Justin B. Dimick, Lauren H. Nicholas Comparison of Distribution- and Anchor-Based Approaches to Infer Changes in Health-Related Quality of Life of Prostate Cancer Survivors Ravishankar Jayadevappa Care Coordination for the Chronically Ill: Understanding the Patient's Perspective Daniel D. Maeng, Grant R. Martsolf, Dennis P. Scanlon and Jon B. Christianson Costs and Insurance COBRA ARRA Subsidies: Was the Carrot Enticing Enough? Mary Reed, Vicki Fung, William H. Dow, Joseph P. Newhouse Take-Up of Public Insurance and Crowd-Out of Private Insurance under Recent CHIP Expansions to Higher Income Children Miriam Laugesen and José J. Escarce Variations in Use of Services Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health and Health Care among U.S. Adolescents Glenn Flores Hospital-Level Variation in the Use of Intensive Care Colin R. Cooke Delays in Seeking Conventional Medical Care and Complementary and Alternative Medicine Utilization Jennie J. Kronenfeld HSR is an official journal of AcademyHealth.