ODT’s Most-Read Stories This Week—April 16

Product launches and a new CMS code took top billing on ODT’s website this past holiday week.

Stryker garnered page views with news that its InSpace balloon implant scored its own outpatient facility code (HCPCS C9781) from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The new Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System code will be used to facilitate the process of health insurance claims for individuals enrolled in Medicare and other health insurance programs, allowing for more patients to have access to care with InSpace.

The InSpace balloon implant addresses massive irreparable rotator cuff tears and provides a new, simple surgical treatment option, allowing surgeons to better meet the needs of their patients. InSpace is designed to restore the subacromial space, provides a less invasive solution compared to other surgical treatment options that require fixation devices or grafts and has been demonstrated to improve shoulder motion and function.

Also driving website traffic was word of new product launches from SeaSpine and BioInteractions. SeaSpine launched the Reef TA (TLIF Articulating) Interbody System, which is designed to reliably deliver an interbody to the anterior portion of the disc space to optimize sagittal alignment and endplate support. Reef TA interbody devices feature NanoMetalene surface technology and Reef Topography. NanoMetalene is a sub-micron layer of commercially pure titanium bonded to a PEEK implant, designed to provide a bone-friendly titanium surface, while retaining the benefits associated with traditional PEEK, such as biocompatibility, a modulus of elasticity similar to bone, and excellent radiographic visibility for postoperative imaging. The added macro structures of Reef Topography provide greater titanium surface area and improved biomechanical stability.

U.K.-based BioInteractions, meanwhile, launched TridAnt, a new coating technology for medical devices which it claims represents a paradigm shift in infection prevention and protection against a broad range of pathogens. TridAnt incorporates active and passive components to create a non-leaching, effective, safe and durable antimicrobial coating for even the most sensitive medical devices and implants, helping to save lives and time needed for medical treatment.

1. CMS Establishes Outpatient Code for Insertion of Stryker’s InSpace Balloon Implant

2. ECA Medical Using Solvay’s Ixef PARA for New Instruments

3. SeaSpine Commercially Launches Reef TA (TLIF Articulating) Interbody System

4. BioInteractions Launches New Coating Technology for Medical Devices