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Morning Brief — Tuesday, September 22, 2026
JBJS: a Houston private practice audits three years of CPT 22-modifier claims — 71.7% approved, 7.7% more money, and up to 77% longer to get paid · ORTHOWORLD's 2026 spine market analysis: an $11B market growing ~3%, with Medtronic and Globus at a combined 43% and nobody else above 8% · Smith+Nephew brings the acquired Tendon Seam cuff system, a new knotless anchor and both-sides handheld shoulder robotics to ICSES 2026 — contesting Zimmer Biomet's May 'first' claim · ESSKA and the European Shoulder Associates publish their formal consensus on partial-thickness posterosuperior cuff tears: nonsurgical first, one Grade A recommendation, and Grade B support for PRP · Five-year randomized subgroup from Lyon: 16.4% graft failure after isolated BPTB versus 4.8% for hamstring plus anterolateral ligament reconstruction in patients under 25
Morning Brief — Monday, September 21, 2026
Two bunion datasets out of AOFAS 2026 pull against each other: Treace's five-year ALIGN3D Lapiplasty results, and an HSS series where MIS Lapidus matched open Lapidus on PROMIS at one year · Zimmer Biomet takes the both-sides ROSA Shoulder System to ICSES 2026 in Vancouver, where Stryker and Enovis are the other top-tier sponsors · Fusion Orthopedics launches the FibFix fibula nail into AOFAS and OTA, going after a small intramedullary category held by Acumed and Arthrex · Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research publishes a methodological audit finding the synovial leukocyte count and differential are poor standalone rule-in tests for PJI, against the 2025 meta-analysis behind the Unified PJI Criteria
Complex Devices (Batteries, Electrics & More): How Can We Disinfect What We Can't Immerse?
How do you disinfect what you can't immerse? In this Beyond Clean special release podcast episode, recorded LIVE at HSPA 2026, Garrett Hollembeak joins STERIS's Karen Owens and Bianca Paskert to explore the growing challenges of cleaning complex, battery-powered, and electronic devices. Together, th
Episode 233: Michael Fanous - Reimagining Digital Slide Scanning With Scanimus
Today my guest is Michael Fanous, Founder and CEO of Scanimus What we discuss with Michael: From Bioengineering to Pathology Scanimus origin story Explaining motion blur Continuous scanning explained How to build trust with Pathologists Why digitization matters Designing for real users Ideal use cas
Morning Brief — Friday, September 18, 2026
Mindray launches the SV70 non-invasive ventilator into the fleet-replacement hole Philips left when it exited hospital ventilation · Stryker brings Prophecy patient-specific planning to the Incompass total ankle, plus a Hoffmann LRF smartHEX frame with a patient-facing app, at AOFAS 2026 · SIGNUS USA completes the first US implantation of COSY, its posterior occipito-cervico-thoracic fixation system, with up to 70 degrees of screw angulation · Onkos releases the ELEOS Total Femoral Adapter with NanoCept, the first implant coated at its own new New Jersey facility, with human infection-reduction data still pending a Section 522 study
Morning Brief — Thursday, September 17, 2026
CMS expands the ACCESS digital chronic-care model: four new tracks from spring 2027 and musculoskeletal pain support past the first 12 months · Federal Circuit affirms Globus Medical's noninfringement win over three Moskowitz Family spinal implant patents in a precedential opinion · Synergy Spine presents two-year ALIGN-1L IDE data at SMISS: 87.1% composite clinical success for the one-level Synergy Disc versus 56.6% for matched ACDF controls
Ep. 47 – The Business of Better Care with Mike Mogul: Innovation, Investment & Scale
In today's Academy Series Mike Mogul, Managing Partner at HealthPoint Capital and former Group President of Stryker Orthopaedics and former CEO of DJO Global, shares his perspective on the leadership, investment, and operational forces shaping the future of healthcare. With decades of experience bui
A Conversation "To The Maxx" With CEO Ashesh Shah, MBA and Distributor Kris Jones!
Device Nation sits down for a most inspiring conversation with two leaders I so respect in our space! Independent Distributor Kris Jones "opens the room" for us as we talk about his life, his career as a scrub tech, why he likes to fix all things, the family medical device business, how to run a suc
Morning Brief — Wednesday, September 16, 2026
HHS OIG: Medicare Advantage plans under-screen out-of-network equipment suppliers, who bill seven times more for orthotics than enrolled suppliers · Zimmer Biomet proposes cutting up to 580 jobs at its Winterthur, Switzerland plant — most of the site · Paradromics says the first Connexus BCI participant is using the implant for real-time, self-generated speech · Arthritis Care & Research: fully automated MRI cartilage segmentation separates knees headed for replacement at least as well as expert manual analysis
Morning Brief — Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Bloomberg and WSJ: J&J is in talks to sell DePuy Synthes to Apollo Global Management for close to $20 billion · AAOS files its CY2027 fee schedule comment letter on the deadline: keep 2026 work RVUs for primary hip, knee and shoulder arthroplasty and drop the 50% same-day E/M cut · ACR posts its 2026 osteoarthritis guideline: strong against PRP and stem cell injections in knee and hip, conditional yes to GLP-1 receptor agonists in knee OA with obesity
Morning Brief — Monday, September 14, 2026
SI-BONE recalls 98 iFuse TORQ implants over tube packaging that may not hold a sterile barrier; two already implanted · Medtronic's Stealth AXiS does its first clinical cases in Europe, starting with complex spine revision · Mayo Clinic: about 30% of knee MACI biopsies proceed to implantation at a mean 4.3 years
Morning Brief — Friday, September 11, 2026
FDA puts its most serious recall classification on Boston Scientific's Infinion CX spinal cord stimulator leads after 1,081 serious injuries · Shoulder Innovations clears the N-22 humeral head for metal-hypersensitive anatomic total shoulder and ships the same day · Shoulder Innovations takes exclusive US upper-extremity rights to ALM Ortho's patient-matched titanium implants · restor3d launches MyFit, a patient-facing layer whose real payload is a 2,250-patient patient-specific implant registry · Biocomposites takes combination-antibiotic STIMULAN biofilm data to EBJIS-MSIS in Porto
Morning Brief — Thursday, September 10, 2026
Medacta's H1 2026: 9.7% constant-currency growth, but North America is the slowest region and gross margin fell 310 basis points · ArthroTAK's sutureless PEEK anchor clears FDA for expanded indications, and its first target is lateral extra-articular tenodesis · Journal of Spine Surgery publishes cadaveric accuracy data on OnPoint's augmented reality guidance: 1.1 mm positional, 1.3 degrees angular across 80 pedicle screws · Bone Biologics doubles its Australian NB1 sites to six, aiming to finish enrollment in the rhNELL-1 TLIF pilot by year end
Morning Brief — Tuesday, September 8, 2026
AMA and more than 150 organizations ask CMS to withdraw the modifier-25 payment cut before the September 14 comment deadline · AMA backs site-neutral imaging in the CY2027 outpatient rule but objects to $260M leaving Part B with nothing coming back · Kinomatic launches Kinect, an implant-independent planning platform whose real product is the joint-replacement data lake underneath it · Globus Medical takes Excelsius3D into the EU and UK on a CE mark, five years after its FDA clearance
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Morning Brief — Friday, September 4, 2026
BioRestorative Therapies takes a 1-for-20 reverse split to hold its Nasdaq listing while the Phase 2 BRTX-100 disc trial runs to its 52-week endpoint · GMReis completes the first US case with Quick Radius, a single-use distal radius kit built for ambulatory surgery centers · Nanochon treats the first patient in the Chondrograft first-in-human knee cartilage study, in Panama
Morning Brief — Thursday, September 3, 2026
INFUSE Bone Graft gains Medicare new technology add-on payment eligibility for transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion, effective October 1 · Medtronic's Q1 fiscal 2027: $9.8B and 13.7% growth on a fourteen-week quarter; cranial and spinal technologies up 12.9% organic · OrthoArizona opens a $25M, 50,000-square-foot Glendale center with the ASC, MRI and therapy inside it
Morning Brief — Wednesday, September 2, 2026
Enovis makes a binding offer for eCential Robotics — €155M enterprise value, earnout tied to knee and shoulder · Medtronic invests ~$700M in Cornerstone Robotics for ex-US distribution rights to Sentire · Stryker's SportSuite Vision runs the first Apple Vision Pro hip arthroscopy, at Duke Health · Stryker signs a definitive agreement for ZuriMED and its FiberLocker rotator cuff augmentation system
Morning Brief — Tuesday, September 1, 2026
Comment period closes on CMS's 2027 outpatient/ASC payment rule — pay the building more, the surgeon less · Smith+Nephew's EVOS Pelvic and Acetabular System gets its first case, at Tampa General
Morning Brief — Monday, August 31, 2026
The new FY2027 fusion MS-DRGs are device-class, not Carlsmed-exclusive — DeGen plants a flag · Tenon Medical prices a $3M private placement with 177% warrant coverage, closing Aug 31 · Spineart's PERLA TL pedicle screws clear FDA to run on eCential's open robotics platform · Globus Medical acquires Duke-incubated Higgs Boson Health for episode-of-care software
Morning Brief — Friday, August 28, 2026
CMS proposes work RVU cuts of 16.6% to 20.8% on primary hip, knee and shoulder arthroplasty in the CY2027 fee schedule · AlloPort opens an allograft procurement network Sept 1, leaving two platforms competing to disintermediate tissue-bank ordering · ACDF matches laminoplasty on neurological recovery in cervical myelopathy with spinal cord-canal mismatch
Morning Brief — Thursday, August 27, 2026
Alphatec recalls SafeOp patient interfaces over neuromonitoring dropouts, ships a software update · AAOS 2026: first study to quantify prior auth in elective spine finds delay without savings · CMS creates three new MS-DRGs for Carlsmed's aprevo lumbar fusion, effective Oct 1
Morning Brief — Wednesday, August 26, 2026
OIG: Medicare improperly paid $15.2M for SI joint injections, with 72% of sampled sessions non-compliant · Globus Medical Q2 2026: $789.6M net sales, US spine +7%, international spine +14% · OrthoPediatrics buys a UK spinal device manufacturer, expanding its scoliosis line · Dr. Vin Dasa on the rep-less debate: the real question is coverage, and the technology exists
Morning Brief — Tuesday, August 25, 2026
CMS 2027 proposed rule — a fourth straight year of downward pressure, comments close Sept 14 · WISeR brings AI-assisted prior authorization to fee-for-service Medicare in six states · Medtronic's Stealth AXiS clears FDA as an integrated planning + navigation + robotics platform · Spineart's Baguera C cervical disc approved for one and two contiguous levels