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		<title>Where Do Babies Come From?  Turns Out Quite A Few Come From Adherence Failure</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2010/04/21/where-do-babies-come-from-turns-out-quite-a-few-come-from-adherence-failure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Half Of US Pregnancies Unintended An article in the  Health Journal portion of the 20 April 2010 Wall Street Journal, The Birth-Control Riddle by Melinda Beck, offers these impressive statistics regarding unintended pregnancies: Almost half of all pregnancies in the U.S.—some 3.1 million a year—are unintended, according to the most recent government survey, from 2001.1 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flawed Alignment In The West Virginia Medicaid Incentive Plan</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2008/10/30/flawed-alignment-in-the-west-virginia-medicaid-incentive-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alignment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[American Medical News Critiques West Virginia Medicaid Incentive Program The graphic above is the heading for an American Medical News1  story about the West Virginia Medicaid patient incentive plan.  The basics of the West Virginia plan and my perspective on it was discussed in this blog two years ago at West Virginia Medicaid Compliance Contracts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patient Compliance In David Snow&#039;s Healthcare Reform Plan</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2008/10/22/patient-compliance-in-david-snows-healthcare-reform-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The David Snow Healthcare Policy Speech: Background On September 19  2008 at the National Press Club, David Snow, who by most accounts has performed well since being appointed Chairman and CEO of Medco Health Solutions in 2003,  moved beyond the boundaries of corporate healthcare to offer, in the words of his press release, &#8230; a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Latest On Government and Health Compliance</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2008/08/13/the-latest-on-government-and-health-compliance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This excerpt from the New York Times article, Los Angeles Stages a Fast Food Intervention,1 not only describes the latest example of a government taking action to nudge its citizens toward better nutrition but also succinctly summarizes analogous efforts in the recent past:2 A NEW weapon in the battle against obesity was rolled out last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Check The Fine Print For Noncompliance &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2008/08/06/check-the-fine-print-for-noncompliance-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are Prescription Labels Readable? Clues From The Marketplace The preceding post, Check The Fine Print For Noncompliance &#8211; Part 1, included a couple of studies indicating that, indeed, there are problems deciphering the medication information and instructions printed on prescription pill bottles in a font size technically known &#8211; on this blog &#8211; as &#8220;too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Check The Fine Print For Noncompliance &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2008/08/04/check-the-fine-print-for-noncompliance-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inadequate Font Size As A Cause Of Noncompliance While young at heart, I am presbyopic of vision. Consequently, I have become aware of the difficulty reading certain types of texts that one routinely encounters on a frequent basis. The day to day category that has proved most troublesome is, by a wide margin, prescription medication [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome To Australian Rules Medication Compliance</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2008/04/01/welcome-to-australian-rules-medication-compliance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, as far as I know, there are no medication compliance tournaments, but, according to Scores help patients keep pace with prescriptions, by Adam Cresswell in The Australian (March 29, 2008), Patients will be scored on how closely they follow their doctor&#8217;s orders in taking their prescribed medications, in a move designed to lift adherence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Edwards On Patient Compliance</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2007/09/06/john-edwards-on-patient-compliance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And Bloggers On John Edwards]]></description>
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		<title>Ted Nugent, Patient Compliance, and Jerry Lewis</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2007/06/26/ted-nugent-patient-compliance-and-jerry-lewis/</link>
		<comments>http://alignmap.com/2007/06/26/ted-nugent-patient-compliance-and-jerry-lewis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<title>Directly Observed Therapy For HIV-Infected Children</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2007/06/07/directly-observed-therapy-for-hiv-infected-children/</link>
		<comments>http://alignmap.com/2007/06/07/directly-observed-therapy-for-hiv-infected-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 09:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<title>Patient Noncompliance Negates Screening Programs</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2007/05/21/patient-noncompliance-negates-screening-programs/</link>
		<comments>http://alignmap.com/2007/05/21/patient-noncompliance-negates-screening-programs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 09:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<title>Suicide As Sequela of Noncompliance</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2007/05/17/suicide-as-sequela-of-noncompliance/</link>
		<comments>http://alignmap.com/2007/05/17/suicide-as-sequela-of-noncompliance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 17:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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