Basis of Presentation	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2020
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]
Basis of Presentation	Basis of PresentationThe accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Axogen, Inc. (the “Company” or “Axogen”) and its wholly owned subsidiaries, Axogen Corporation (“AC”), Axogen Processing Corporation (“APC”) and Axogen Europe GmbH, as of December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019 and for the three years ended December 31, 2020. The Company’s consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. All intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

The entire disclosure for the basis of accounting, or basis of presentation, used to prepare the financial statements (for example, US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, Other Comprehensive Basis of Accounting, IFRS).

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 235
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2122369

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