A Lifetime Guarantee on a Shoulder Implant? This Device Maker Is Offering It Through Geisinger

MedCity News December 9, 2024
Arundhati Parmar

Swiss Medtech Company Medacta teamed up with Geisinger to begin providing the world’s first, lifetime guarantee on shoulder replacement surgeries.

A group of U.K. researchers collaborated with researchers from the National Institutes of Health to answer a question: How long does a shoulder replacement last? They found that about 90% of shoulder replacements last for longer than 10 years.

One Swiss medical device company — Medacta — is hoping to improve that statistic. Through a collaboration with Pennsylvania health system Geisinger, Medacta is providing a lifetime guarantee for its shoulder implants. In mid November, the two organizations announced that a Geisinger orthopedics surgeon had became the world’s first to operate on a woman undergoing a reverse shoulder replacement using Medacta’s...

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