# Vertos Medical

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/vertos-medical/  
**Website:** https://www.vertosmed.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 2.9 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-19 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (-2.2 from 5.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 46.3 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Health**: 7.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Security (1)

- **Vertos Medical Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Medical Devices, Health Care, Spine, Interventional Pain Management, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Acquired

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/vertos-medical/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.