Cecil Risher, Jr., the former office manager of an orthopedic supply company in Brunswick, Ga., has pleaded guilty to his role in a fraud scheme that bilked more than $500,000 from Medicare, according to a Florida Times-Union report.
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Wright Medical Group has received approval from the FDA to conduct an Investigational Device Exemption clinical study to investigate the use of INBONE total ankle replacement, according to a company news release.
Note: A previous version of this article erroneously refered to the NexGen LPS-Flex as a ACL repair system. We apologize for the error.Zimmer Holdings launched the Zimmer NexGen LPS-Flex mobile bearing knee with Prolong highly crosslinked polyethylene in the United…
TransCorp Spine, a Michigan-based spine device company, has signed a supply agreement with curasan, a Kleinostheim, Germany-based company, according to a curasan news release.
Wright Medical Group has signed a distribution agreement with AlloSource for FUSIONFLEX Bone Matrix, a bone repair scaffold primarily used during foot and ankle fusions, according to a Wright Medical Group news release.
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After a four-year patent infringement suit, Stryker has entered into a licensing agreement with TriMed, a Valencia, Calif.-based company that develops and manufactures orthopedic fixation devices, according to a TriMed news release.
Globus Medical, an Audubon, Pa.-based spinal implants manufacturer, has acquired Facet Solutions, a Hopkinton, Mass.-based developer of total facet arthroplasty devices, according to a Globus Medical news release.
Smith & Nephew shares jumped Monday after the news was released that the company had rejected an acquisition by Johnson & Johnson, according to a WallStreet.com report.
Symmetry Medical, a Warsaw, Ind.-based orthopedic and medical device manufacturer, named Thomas J. Sullivan as president and CEO of the company, according to a company news release.
Stryker reported net sales of 1.995 billion for the fourth quarter of 2010, an 8.8 percent increase over the net sales of the fourth quarter of 2009, according to a company news release.