Philadelphia-based Rothman Orthopaedic Institute is scaling up in Florida this year, with plans to recruit more physicians and add offices, according to the Orlando Business Journal.
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Another lawsuit has been filed against Aetna Life Insurance, arguing that the insurer improperly limits coverage for lumbar artificial disc replacement by treating the procedures as experimental and investigational.
CoreLink's Fusation cervical anchor received FDA 510(k) clearance, the devicemaker said March 8.
Saqib Hasan, MD, is an endoscopic spine pioneer, completing California's first endoscopic lumbar fusion with robot-assisted technology.
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Frank Vizesi, PhD, has been appointed chief scientific officer of SeaSpine after seven years with the company.
University Hospitals will be the first health system in the Cleveland area to use the Mazor X Stealth Edition Robotic Guidance Platform for spinal surgery, the health system said in a March 7 news release.
Kornelis Poelstra, MD, PhD, has completed 1,111 robotic-assisted spine surgeries and says enabling technologies such as robotics and augmented reality are "just beginning to scratch the surface" in spine surgery.
Swiss medical device company Medartis will acquire Nextremity, an orthopedics-focused product development company, Medartis said in a March 7 news release.
Nonprofit organization Mitre has appointed Stephen Ondra, MD, chief medical adviser of the CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare federally funded research and development center.