The December 2012 issue of Health Services Research (HSR) looks at use and costs, quality of care, post-acute care, and health plan and physician availability. The issue opens with two articles that came out of AcademyHealth’s 2012 Annual Research Meeting (ARM). The articles published in this section were selected from the work submitted to the 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 closes January 17. There is significant focus on costs and quality within this issue of the journal, with examinations of EMR-based decision support systems, the patient-centered medical home, and satisfaction among patients with chronic illnesses. In partnership with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, HSR is also currently seeking papers for a special issue on health IT. The aim of the special issue is to show progress made under the Healthcare Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009 and to highlight research on health IT to inform future policymaking. Manuscripts must be submitted by December 28 to be considered for publication. Read the full call for papers here. The following AcademyHealth members had their work featured in this month’s issue of HSR: Best of ARM Comparative Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions to Improve Medication Adherence after Myocardial Infarction William H. Shrank, Troyen A. Brennan, and Niteesh K. Choudhry The Impact of Hospital Pay-for-Performance on Hospital and Medicare Costs Gregory B. Kruse, Daniel Polsky, and Rachel M. Werner Use and Costs Cost-Effectiveness of an Electronic Medical Record Based Clinical Decision Support System Todd P. Gilmer and Patrick J. O'Connor Food Insecurity, Processes of Care, and Self-Reported Medication Underuse in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: Results from the California Health Interview Survey John Billimek Is There a Statistical Relationship between Economic Crises and Changes in Government Health Expenditure Growth? An Analysis of Twenty-Four European Countries Martin McKee Quality of Care Chronic Illness and Patient Satisfaction Caroline S. Carlin and Jon B. Christianson The Patient-Centered Medical Home and Patient Experience Grant R. Martsolf,, Lawrence P. Casalino, Dennis P. Scanlon and Stephen M. Shortell Post-Acute Care Assisted Living Expansion and the Market for Nursing Home Care David C. Grabowski and David G. Stevenson Rehospitalization in a National Population of Home Health Care Patients with Heart Failure Elizabeth A. Madigan, Richard H. Fortinsky, and Siran M. Koroukian Health Plan and Physician Availability The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Medicare Advantage Plan Availability and Enrollment Mary Beth Landrum and Michael E. Chernew Residential Segregation and the Availability of Primary Care Physicians Darrell J. Gaskin Methods Choosing Models for Health Care Cost Analyses: Issues of Nonlinearity and Endogeneity Melissa M. Garrido, James F. Burgess Jr. and Joan D. Penrod HSR is an official journal of AcademyHealth.