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ticker: "KIDS"
cik: "0001425450"
company_name: "ORTHOPEDIATRICS CORP"
filed_at: "2025-08-05T23:59:59+00:00"
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# OrthoPediatrics expands specialty bracing into California, Ohio, Colorado, New York, and Ireland

## Summary
- First OPSB clinic in California opens in Los Angeles market, providing access to millions of potential patients.
- New clinic opens in Dayton, OH within Dayton Children's Hospital, expanding Ohio territory.
- Added clinics and clinicians to cover Denver, CO territory; New York operation adds multiple locations at major children's hospitals.
- Ireland becomes OPSB's first international market, complementing existing implant business in country's largest pediatric hospital.
- Management says expansion is slightly ahead of planned entry into 4 new target markets for 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001425450-25-000090
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KIDS
- cik: 0001425450
- company_name: ORTHOPEDIATRICS CORP
- filed_at: 2025-08-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1425450/000142545025000090/0001425450-25-000090-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1425450/000142545025000090/kids-20250805.htm

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