Implant manufacturer Aurora Spine saw margins improve from 35 percent to 49 percent in the first quarter while revenue remained the same, compared to the first quarter of 2020.
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Kankakee, Ill.-based Riverside Healthcare will open its Orthopedic and Spine Center on June 1, a little over a year after the project broke ground, according to the Daily Journal.
Medtronic reported a strong fourth quarter of the 2021 fiscal year ending April 30, as elective procedure volumes rebounded after plunging during the pandemic.
Five key updates from spine and orthopedic device companies in the last week:
Spinal Stabilization Technologies reached two milestones for its PerQdisc spine device.
Orthopedic device company MicroPort formed two partnerships to bolster patient outcomes and education.
University of Alabama at Birmingham is opening a multispecialty sports medicine and cardiology clinic to serve young athletes, according to a May 25 release.
Tenet Health Central Coast partnered with the University of California San Francisco to provide neurological services.
Self-employed orthopedists made $29,000 more annually than employed orthopedists, according to Medscape's Orthopedist Compensation Report 2021.
From increasing regulatory changes to the possibility of a single-payer system, the concerns of spine surgeons are many. Here's a look at what's weighing on the minds of four.