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Humana and UPMC Health Decisions Complete SBi's Goal of 100% Private Payor Access to STARTM Total Ankle Replacement In U.S.

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, October 16th, 2011

2011 OCT 16 -- Small Bone Innovations, Inc. (SBi) announced that Humana, Inc., with nearly 11.3 million health plan members in the U.S. and UPMC Health, the second largest health plan in western Pennsylvania, with 1.2 million members, will each cover SBi's STAR™ total ankle replacement system.

The STAR ankle is the only total ankle replacement system ever to be cleared through the FDA's rigorous Premarket Approval (PMA) process. In the PMA process, the STAR ankle's safety and effectiveness was compared with ankle fusion in a multi-year, multi-center, concurrently controlled, Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) study. The IDE study results,...

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