Surgeons at hospitals in California and Virginia have completed the first commercial procedures using Providence Medical Technology’s FDA-cleared 3D-printed posterior cervical fusion implant. The procedures used the company’s CORUS Posterior Cervical Stabilization System 3D-T, which features a porous titanium lattice…
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Companion Spine has completed the integration of Paradigm Spine following its acquisition of the company in December 2025. The companies now operate as a single organization across U.S. and international markets, with commercial activities in 36 countries and approximately 82…
Some spine ASCs have stopped paying for implants by the screw. Frank Phillips, MD, a spine surgeon at Chicago-based Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush, said his group’s ASCs pay vendors one fixed price per procedure, no matter what hardware goes in.…
The first surgery using Spine Innovation’s LOGIC Titanium Implant System was performed Oct. 14 at Scripps Green Hospital in La Jolla, Calif. Robert Eastlack, MD, an orthopedic spine surgeon, performed the procedure using the expandable interbody implant designed for transforaminal…
Spine surgery is operating at a crossroads. Consolidation is accelerating, reimbursement continues to decline, patient complexity is rising, enabling technologies are reshaping operative strategy, and the rapid shift into outpatient environments is redefining where and how care is delivered. In…
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Globus Medical introduced two spine surgery technologies at the 41st Annual North American Spine Society Meeting in San Antonio, which runs Oct. 14-17. The technologies include SCRIPT, an FDA-cleared patient-specific spinal implant platform, and the XLIF Prone Procedural Solution, according…
Medtronic’s Stealth AXiS surgical system has been named to Time’s Best Inventions of 2026 list. The list highlighted a preoperative planning feature that uses AI to help surgeons design surgeries for patients and a live monitoring tool that allows physicians…
SpineCraft received a U.S. patent for a hybrid technology that handles intraoperative registration and tracking in image-guided spine surgery. The spine surgery systems developer and manufacturer said the patent is the first of several focused on spine surgery enabling technologies.…
Centinel Spine has received FDA approval for two-level use of its prodisc C Nova cervical artificial disc replacement device. The approval gives the company three cervical disc replacement devices cleared for both one- and two-level procedures, according to an Oct.…
Stryker plans to invest approximately $400 million in U.K.-based CMR Surgical, a global robotics company, as part of a strategic alliance to expand access to robotic-assisted surgery. The agreement gives Stryker an exclusive option to acquire 100% of CMR Surgical’s…