Lauren Nicholas, Kenneth Langa, Theodore Iwashyna, and David Weir have received the 2012 article-of-the-year award from Academy Health for their *JAMA* article [“Regional Variation in the Association Between Advance Directives and End-of-Life Medicare.”](http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1104465) The annual award recognizes the best scientific work that the fields of health services research and health policy have produced and published.