CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA--(Marketwired - Oct 23, 2014) - Aurora Spine Corporation (TSX VENTURE:ASG) announced it has entered into a national contract with MedAssets. MedAssets is one of the nation's largest third-party providers of supply chain management and outsourced procurement capabilities. MedAssets manages, on behalf of its clients, more than $50 billion in supply expense per year through the MedAssets National Procurement Center.

"MedAssets serves four out of five U.S. hospitals, 180 health systems, more than 4,400 hospitals and 122,000 non-acute healthcare providers," said Brent Johnston, Chief Business Officer for Aurora Spine. "Aurora is excited to offer our product lines which include the recently launched Ti-NANO™ MIS interbody fusion systems and our line of Zip™ MIS Interspinous Fusion systems through the MedAssets network. This relationship will make our MIS products available to more patients looking for innovative spinal fusion technology."

Aurora Spine's product portfolio is immediately available to MedAssets' network of hospitals, medical care facilities and surgeons.

About Aurora Spine

Aurora Spine is an early stage company focused on bringing new solutions to the spinal implant market through a series of innovative, minimally invasive, regenerative spinal implant technologies.

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