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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