OREGON UPSTART OFFERS $90 SCREW (Orthopedics This Week)
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The headless 3 millimeter compression screw placed in a hip or knee costs $385 from one leading manufacturer. An upstart, based in Portland, Oregon, is selling that same screw for $90—a 76% reduction. Elizabeth Hayes, staff reporter for the Portland Business Journal, tells the story of Impact Medical and its founder and CEO, E.J. Duffy, who says that his orthopedic implants are made out of the exact same stainless steel as are those from other manufacturers.
“We were able to reverse engineer a lot of produ...
