Health Care Management Science publishes papers dealing with health care delivery, health care management, and health care policy. Papers should have a decision focus and make use of quantitative methods including management science, operations research, analytics, machine learning, and other emerging areas. Applied research will be considered and is of particular interest if there is evidence that it was implemented or informed a decision-making process. Please see the journal Aims and Scope for detailed editorial objectives. Officially cited as: Health Care Manag Sci Offers rigorous scientific approaches towards solving problems in health care delivery, health care management, and health care policy Papers have a strong methodological focus and uses a broad range of advanced quantitative methods Decision-focused: articles should provide answers and insights for clinicians, administrators and policy makers Interested in applied work that contributed to an improved decision or process