Author: Alan Condon

Humana has widened its coverage policies to include minimally invasive sacroiliac joint fusion using triangular titanium implants, which covers SI-Bone's iFuse system.

Patients at the Department of Veterans Affairs' spinal cord injury centers will be first to receive Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine from the federal agency, Stars and Stripes reports.

The medtech sector looks more certain to recover in 2021, with Morgan Stanley analysts betting on Medtronic and Zimmer Biomet stocks to perform well next year, according to Seeking Alpha.

Alexandre Rasouli, MD, reportedly performed the first spine surgery with Centinel Spine's new angled endplates intended for the prodisc L lumbar total disc replacement system.

Researchers from New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery are using a novel method for evaluating bone density that may be able to more accurately predict which patients would have poor outcomes after spinal fusion.

The back end of 2020 saw three significant orthopedic practice mergers announced in Texas, Tennessee and Missouri, which will involve more than 279 physicians:

Physicians at Balgrist University Hospital in Zurich recently performed the first "holographically navigated" spine surgery with Microsoft's HoloLens 2 headset, according to a Dec. 14 report by TweakTown.

Nevro, a developer of spinal cord stimulation and neuromodulation systems for chronic pain, said it dropped its patent infringement case against Boston Scientific in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Thirteen spine surgeons share their outlook on the spine field in 2021 and what success will look like for their practice.

Becker's Spine Review has reported on eight orthopedic centers opened or announced in the past month: