HJAR Sep/Oct 2025

DEPARTMENTS Healthcare Briefs ............................................................................ 27 Hospital Rounds .............................................................................. 47 Ad Index ................................................................................................ 50 FEATURES One on One ......................................................................... 8 Brian Thomas President & CEO, Jefferson Regional Medical Center What’s Wrong with Healthcare? Part 4 .......... 14 Utilization Management: Two Sides of the Same Coin Kenny J. Cole, MD, MHCDS Value-Based Healthcare Correspondent Expanding the Future of Medicine: Integrating Business into Postgraduate Medical Education at UAMS . .............................. 20 T. Glenn Pait, MD Professor of Neurosurgery and Orthopaedics, UAMS Deanna Sasaki-Adams, MD Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery, UAMS SPECIAL REPORTS Laws Meant to Improve Arkansans’ Access to Prescription Drugs Set to Go into Effect .................................................................. 24 Tess Vrbin Arkansas Advocate Arkansas State Health Ranking ............................ 26 America’s Health Rankings Annual Report United Health Foundation CORRESPONDENTS ADH Corner ....................................................................................... 34 Medicaid .............................................................................................. 36 Children’s Health ........................................................................... 38 Oral Health ........................................................................................ 40 Nursing ................................................................................................. 42 Rural Health ...................................................................................... 44 September / October 2025 I Vol. 12, No. 5 Contents 8 © USHJ 2025 20