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First Choice Healthcare Solutions, a delivery platform for orthopedic and spine care, welcomed three new board members, Gary Augusta, Thomas Gill, MD, and James Renna, according to Space Coast Daily.

Here are eight hospitals, health systems and private practices expanding spine and neurosurgery programs. 

While Paradigm Spine's coflex has been available for several years, in 2018 several major payers announced favorable coverage decisions, including most recently Priority Health of Michigan, BlueCross BlueShield of North Dakota and BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina. This is additive…

NuVasive named J. Christopher Barry as its new CEO, effective Nov. 5.

Simplify Medical appointed Cindy Lynch vice president of general counsel.

J. Michael Glover, MD, is a board-certified orthopedic spine surgeon at Flagstaff-based Northern Arizona Orthopaedics.

SpineEx earned FDA 510(k) clearance for its Sagittae lateral lumbar interbody fusion device.

The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled in favor of orthopedic surgeon Jeff Almand, MD, and several other defendants in a medical malpractice case, according to Legal NewsLine.

Intelligent Implants uses electric fields to spur bone growth in high-risk spinal fusion patients, Chron Business reports.

Smith & Nephew's Intertan Intertrochanteric Antegrade Nail for hip fracture treatment improved patient outcomes and reduced costs, according to two new studies presented at the Orthopaedic Trauma Association's 2018 Annual Meeting in Orlando, Oct. 17-20.