Here are four outpatient spine updates Becker's has reported on since Feb. 28:
1. InSpan, an interspinous-interlaminar fixation device, has been implanted in thousands of degenerative spine disease patients since its FDA clearance in 2010 and was granted a patent for its interspinous technique and instruments designed for treating spinal stenosis and fusion in ASCs.
2. Newport Beach, Calif.-based DISC Surgery Center inked a contract with Blue Shield of California effective March 15.
3. Spine surgeon Lauren Matteini, MD, performed Illinois' first outpatient anterior-to-psoas lumbar spinal fusion.
4. TriasMD, Newport Beach, Calif.-based DISC Sports and Spine's parent company, acquired Gateway Surgery Center in Santa Clarita, Calif., for the practice's ASC network.