Orlando, Fla.-based medical device company HT Medical rebranded to Xēnix Medical.

Michael Enriquez was named president of New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery's Florida location.

Derry, N.H.-based Parkland Medical Center and Christian Klare, MD, have acquired Globus Medical's ExcelsiusGPS system, according to a LinkedIn post. 

Marriottsville, Md.-based Bon Secours has agreed to acquire Tuckahoe Orthopaedics, a 13-physician group in Richmond, Va., for an undisclosed price, Henrico Citizen reports.

Singing River Health System in Ocean Springs, Miss., has been designated a robotic surgery Center of Excellence by Surgical Review Corp., the Mississippi Business Journal reported April 8.

Spinal implant manufacturer Alphatec received regulatory approval for its $116.9M acquisition of EOS Imaging and expects substantial growth in first-quarter revenue, according to Seeking Alpha.

Sonia Eden, MD, has been appointed head of adult neurosurgery at Detroit Medical Center, the first Black woman to hold the role, and second to lead a U.S. hospital neurosurgery program, Commercial Appeal reported April 8.

The Missouri Supreme Court on April 6 pushed a knee replacement case involving the University of Missouri back to an appeals court, despite a settlement being reached in March, the Columbia Daily Tribune reports.

Medical device companies and surgeons are banding together to ask CMS to roll back new prior authorization requirements set to go into effect July 1.

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus was the first in the state to perform a shoulder replacement surgery with mixed reality 3D hologram technology.

Matt Tharp has been named CFO of Holt, Mich.-based Orchid Orthopedic Solutions, an orthopedic implant manufacturing company, according to an April 6 release. 

Florida health officials have ordered a spine surgeon to take additional courses and pay a fine after performing disc replacement surgery on the wrong part of a patient's spine, the Miami Herald reports.

From spine robots to imaging systems and an artificial disc, here are four key spine systems cleared by the FDA in the past four months:

From patent infringement lawsuits to False Claims Act violations and an upcoming Supreme Court decision, here are five court battles involving orthopedic device companies this year:

Stanford Health Care-ValleyCare is repurposing an 80,000-square-foot gym at its Livermore (Calif.) campus into a specialty facility that will provide spine, orthopedic and gastrointestinal care, according to The Independent.

Here are six updates from spine and orthopedic device companies over the past week:

In the last month, two spine surgeon leaders have left Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins for other healthcare organizations on the East Coast:

Six games for an NHL team have been suspended after 25 players and coaches tested positive for a COVID-19 variant, according to ESPN.

Ron Matricaria, chairman of the Orthofix board of directors since 2014, will not seek re-election at the company's 2021 annual meeting.

Consolidation has increased among orthopedic practices amid the COVID-19 pandemic, with four supergroups of 100-plus physicians formed in Texas, Florida, Tennessee and New Jersey in the past 13 months: