Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Frederick Azar

Sports Medicine Germantown, TN Medical Doctor

NPI 1821084633 CMS profile 354466

1400 S Germantown Rd, Germantown, TN 38138

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General payments

$54,336

13 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$8,875

Paid to them · 8 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Frederick Azar of Germantown, TN is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $54,336 across 13 general payments and $8,875 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 89th percentile of Sports Medicine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

9 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $261 2
2024 General $415 2
2023 General $21 1
2022 General $175 2
2021 General $5,866 1
2021 Research $4,500 2
2020 General $10,966 2
2019 General $36,631 3
2019 Research $4,375 6

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Frederick Azar
  • Sports Medicine median
  • Middle half of Sports Medicine
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Frederick Azar were reported at $261. Among 2,404 Sports Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $664 and the middle half received between $172 and $3,055.

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Year Frederick Azar Sports Medicine median Middle half National median
2019 $36,631 $1,176 $199–$4,249 $163
2020 $10,966 $708 $96–$2,890 $114
2021 $5,866 $1,213 $152–$3,994 $132
2022 $175 $1,230 $159–$3,998 $149
2023 $21 $584 $146–$2,836 $160
2024 $415 $628 $163–$3,168 $164
2025 $261 $664 $172–$3,055 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated $52,713 5 payments
  2. Pacira CryoTech Incorporated $750 1 payment
  3. Smith+Nephew, Inc. $304 1 payment
  4. Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $255 2 payments
  5. Gentleman Orthopedic Solutions $155 1 payment
  6. TissueTech, Inc. $111 1 payment
  7. Vericel Corporation $26 1 payment
  8. Kerecis Limited $21 1 payment

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Current or prospective ownership or investment interest $52,713 5 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $750 1 payment
  3. Food and Beverage $569 6 payments
  4. Education $304 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. EXPAREL $35,881 2 payments
  2. iovera System Pain Management $11,716 3 payments
  3. Iovera System Pain Management $5,866 1 payment
  4. Q-FIX $304 1 payment
  5. HEALICOIL $304 1 payment
  6. TWINFIX $304 1 payment
  7. CLARIX $111 1 payment
  8. Comprehensive Shoulder System $106 1 payment
  9. MACI $26 1 payment
  10. Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose $21 1 payment
  11. Other $85 4 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $8,875 8 payments

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 8 drugs

Part D claims

351

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 203

Drug cost

$1,741

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: $1,433

Branded share of claims

13.7%

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 11.6%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Methylprednisolone Generic 144 $1,021
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 35 $172
Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen Brand 13 $155
Meloxicam Generic 66 $150
Diclofenac Sodium Generic 28 $144
Tramadol Hcl Generic 38 $64
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl Generic 13 $32
Tizanidine Hcl Generic 14 $3

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 18,934 Part D prescribers listed as Orthopedic Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 92 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$376,650

Of which drugs: $76,154

Medicare patients

1,141

Average age 74

Services billed

21,504

705 women, 436 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 75%
Ischemic heart disease 30%
Diabetes 26%
Chronic kidney disease 16%
Osteoporosis 16%
Atrial fibrillation 15%
Depression 15%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Hyaluronan or derivative, synvisc or synvisc-one, for intra-articular injection, 1 mg J7325 Office 125 7,921 $55,349
Hyaluronan or derivative, euflexxa, for intra-articular injection, per dose J7323 Office 47 161 $15,049
Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg J3301 Office 245 3,381 $2,485

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Records

21 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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