Vertos Medical, Inc. is a medical device company founded in 2005 and headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California, that developed the mild (minimally invasive lumbar decompression) procedure for treating lumbar spinal stenosis caused by hypertrophic ligamentum flavum. The mild device kit removes excess ligament tissue through a 5.1 mm treatment portal with no implants, no general anesthesia and no stitches; it received FDA clearance in 2006 and CE mark approval in 2019. Stryker announced a definitive agreement to acquire Vertos Medical in August 2024 and completed the acquisition on October 1, 2024, folding the mild procedure into its Interventional Spine business. The vertosmed.com domain now answers every path with a site-wide HTTP 301 redirect to Stryker, and Vertos Medical publishes no developer program, API, SDK or machine-readable specification of its own.
Vertos Medical is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Medical Devices, Healthcare, Spine, and Interventional Pain Management.
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aid: vertos-medical
name: Vertos Medical
description: Vertos Medical, Inc. is a medical device company founded in 2005 and headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California,
that developed the mild (minimally invasive lumbar decompression) procedure for treating lumbar spinal stenosis caused by
hypertrophic ligamentum flavum. The mild device kit removes excess ligament tissue through a 5.1 mm treatment portal with
no implants, no general anesthesia and no stitches; it received FDA clearance in 2006 and CE mark approval in 2019. Stryker
announced a definitive agreement to acquire Vertos Medical in August 2024 and completed the acquisition on October 1, 2024,
folding the mild procedure into its Interventional Spine business. The vertosmed.com domain now answers every path with
a site-wide HTTP 301 redirect to Stryker, and Vertos Medical publishes no developer program, API, SDK or machine-readable
specification of its own.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/vertos-medical/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
deliveryModel:
model: unknown
open_source: false
commercial: false
callable_host: false
label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
confidence: low
source:
- none
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: unknown
onboarding: unknown
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Unknown
confidence: low
source:
- security
- url: https://www.vertosmed.com/
status: 301
note: declared website redirects to https://www.stryker.com/us/en/interventional-spine.html — a different registrable
domain (vertosmed.com -> stryker.com), possible rename or acquisition (probed 2026-09-03, roadmap#169)
generated: '2026-09-02'
method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-05'
modified: '2026-08-05'
tags:
- Company
- Medical Devices
- Healthcare
- Spine
- Interventional Pain Management
- Minimally Invasive Surgery
- Acquired
tags_raw:
- Company
- Medical Devices
- Health Care
- Spine
- Interventional Pain Management
- Minimally Invasive Surgery
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/vertos-medical-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
url: https://www.vertosmed.com/
- type: About
name: Stryker Interventional Spine (successor page vertosmed.com redirects to)
url: https://www.stryker.com/us/en/interventional-spine.html
- type: PressReleases
name: Stryker completes acquisition of Vertos Medical, Inc. (October 1, 2024)
url: https://www.stryker.com/us/en/about/news/2024/stryker-completes-acquisition-of-vertos-medical-inc-expanding-interventional-pain-management-solutions.html
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-08-05'
status: minimal
artifacts_added: 1
pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
state: none
reason: defunct
detail: Vertos Medical was acquired by Stryker on October 1, 2024, and vertosmed.com now answers every path — including
/robots.txt, /llms.txt, /sitemap.xml and every /.well-known/* probe — with the same site-wide HTTP 301 to Stryker's Interventional
Spine page, so no Vertos developer surface survives to profile.
evidence:
- url: https://www.vertosmed.com/
status: 301
- url: https://www.vertosmed.com/this-path-definitely-does-not-exist-9z8x7/
status: 301
- url: https://www.vertosmed.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
status: 301
- url: https://www.vertosmed.com/llms.txt
status: 301
- url: https://api.vertosmed.com/
status: 0
- url: https://developer.vertosmed.com/
status: 0
- url: https://api.github.com/orgs/vertos-medical
status: 404
checked: '2026-08-05'
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