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2021-12

2021-12-30

    • 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?”

2021-09

2021-10-03

2021-08

2021-08-11

2021-08-10

2021-07

2021-07-29

2021-07-17

2021-07-13

    • 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”.

2021-07-11

2021-06

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2021-05

2021-05-26

2021-05-12

2021-05-06

2021-05-05

2021-01

2021-01-27

2021-01-20

2021-01-18

2021-01-17

2021-01-12

2021-01-01

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