Hanger Honors 2025 Partner Award Recipients

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AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 27, 2026 - Hanger is pleased to announce its 13th annual Partner Awards, honoring four companies for their outstanding contributions to the orthotics and prosthetics (O&P) field. The Operational Performance, Rising Star, Innovation, and Clinical Evidence awards honor suppliers whose products and services advance patient care, improve outcomes, and support Hanger's mission to empower human potential. Award recipients are selected by Hanger's clinical and operational teams based on alignment with the organization's values and impact on care delivery.

Additional details on the awards and this year's recipients are provided below.

Operational Performance:

TruLife was honored with the Operational Performance Award in recognition of its outstanding achievement across quality, efficiency, and cost containment. The company set a high standard with a 99.15% EDI success rate, dependable on-time delivery, minimal backorders, and a flawless shipping record.

Rising Star:

The Rising Star award honors an emerging leader driving industry change, and this year Fior & Gentz was recognized for the Neuro HiTRONIC KAFO, an orthosis with a high-performance microprocessor that allows the system joint to react to situational changes when walking. Fior & Gentz provided outstanding support during product rollout, demonstrating strong partnership and forward-thinking innovation.

Innovation:

This year's Innovation Award, which recognizes companies that exhibit expansive thinking in product innovation and technology, resulting in positive clinical outcomes, was given to Click Medical. Click Medical was honored for its innovative adjustable socket system and obtaining CMS approved coding of the RevoFit Adjustable Socket, expanding access to clinically validated, patient-centered prosthetic care.

Clinical Evidence:

WillowWood was honored with the Clinical Evidence Award in recognition of its significant contributions to evidence-based research that advance patient outcomes. WillowWood is recognized for its strong foundation of clinical evidence, demonstrated through a $14 million federally funded research portfolio focused on socket interface design, limb health, and component performance, the recent opening of a 3,500-square-foot instrumented Research and Experience Center, ongoing clinical collaborations with the Hanger Institute on powered prosthetic knees and K2 ambulators, and recent peer-reviewed publications on prosthetic foot performance.

About Hanger, Inc. - Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Hanger, Inc. is a leading provider of orthotic and prosthetic (O&P) patient care services and products. The company operates as an ecosystem of diversified companies delivering complementary solutions to individuals and providers with O&P needs, and is organized in two business segments - Patient Care and Products & Services. Through its Patient Care segment, Hanger provides comprehensive, outcomes-based O&P services to individuals of all ages at more than 925 Hanger Clinic locations nationwide. Through its Products & Services segment, Hanger serves the broader O&P community and skilled nursing facilities through designing and distributing branded and private label O&P devices, products and components, providing consulting services, and offering post-acute rehabilitative solutions. Rooted in clinical research, excellence, and innovation, Hanger is a purpose-driven company focused on empowering human potential. For more information, visit corporate.hanger.com.

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Annie Myers
External Relations Manager
(210) 440-7380 or [email protected]