Vertos Medical

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, Health Care, Spine, and Interventional Pain Management.

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5.1/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0
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CompanyMedical DevicesHealth CareSpineInterventional Pain ManagementMinimally Invasive SurgeryAcquired

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scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0
Composite quality — 5.1/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 17
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11
Governance 0.0 / 10
Discoverability 3.9 / 9
Regulatory Posture 1.1 / 15
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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Vertos Medical Domain Security

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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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.
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x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-05'
modified: '2026-08-05'
tags:
- 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'