Spinal Tech

Here are nine key notes from orthopedic and spine device companies in the past week.

Auris Health received $220 million in equity financing to advance the commercialization of its endobronchial Monarch Platform and robotic technology development.

AmeriHealth Caritas now exclusively covers Paradigm Spine's coflex interlaminar stabilization device for lumbar spinal stenosis treatment.

The now-defunct Ranier Technology sold spinal implants that allegedly moved and eroded in patients, according to The Guardian.

The Medicrea Group completed a $30 million senior notes issue wholly subscribed by Perceptive Advisors, a multi-strategy healthcare investment firm.

The first clinical human case using Viseon's Voyant System for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery was completed.

OrthoPediatrics released its Pediloc Femur Plate System, the newest installment of the pediatric orthopedic device company's Pediloc franchise.

Last week, Medtronic acquired Nutrino Health, a company that provides data services, analytics and technologies.

Zimmer Biomet recalled the EBI Osteogen Implantable Bone Growth Stimulator, SpF PLUS-Mini Implantable Fusion Stimulator and SpF-XL Implantable Spinal Fusion Stimulator due to "lack of adequate validation and controls to ensure that final products were clean and free from bacteria…

Lumbar spinal stenosis patients experienced an 85 percent decrease in opioid use five years postoperatively when treated with Vertiflex’s Superion Indirect Decompression System, according to a study in the Journal of Pain Research.