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
specificationVersion: '0.23'
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'