Starting Jan. 1, 2022, the “No Surprises Act” consumer protection law goes into effect. This legislation will ban most forms of surprise billing, or balance billing, in which a person unknowingly gets medical care by a provider outside their private insurer’s network, even when visiting an in-network facility.
Ask “Are you part of my plan’s network?” rather than, “Do you take my insurance?”
A harmonic divisor number is a positive integer whose divisors have a harmonic mean that is an integer. The first few harmonic divisor numbers are 1, 6, 28, 140, 270, 496, 672, 1638, 2970, 6200, 8128, 8190.
A new material made of scandium, aluminum, tungsten and oxygen did not change in volume at temperatures ranging from 4 to 1,400 Kelvin (-269 to 1126 °C, -452 to 2059 °F).
Name of the new material - orthorhombic $Sc_{1.5}Al_{0.5}W_{3}O_{12}$
Of all the four elements, scandium is rarer and more costly.
The other ingredients are widely available, and bond together using a “relatively simple synthesis”.