Spinal Tech

CMS has granted its new technology add-on payment to SI-Bone's iFuse Bedrock Granite implant, which received the FDA's breakthrough device designation in November and is designed for sacroiliac fusion and sacropelvic fixation.

Zimmer Biomet appointed Paul Stellato as vice president, controller and chief accounting officer.

Stryker, Johnson & Johnson and Zimmer Biomet all saw first-quarter revenue increases. The devicemakers also saw overall growth in their spine and orthopedic segments year over year.

Synchron, a company developing brain implants, has begun clinical trials in humans ahead of Elon Musk's Neuralink.

Medtronic completed its acquisition of Intersect ENT.

Amplify Surgical recently completed the first training on the dualPortal endoscopic technique.

The first spine surgery in Connecticut using Augmedics' XVision system and the Airo TruCT Mobile Imaging System was performed at the UConn Health Spine Center in Farmington.

Accelus' TiHawk 11 interbody device was cleared by the FDA.

ZimVie's first-quarter spine sales and six more updates from spine device companies in the last week:

Globus Medical on May 10 posted $230.5 million in sales during the first quarter of 2022.