Employee contribution, as a percent of annual salary, that is matched by the employer.

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The required minimum employer matching percentage of employees' contributions for three of the first five years of the plan.

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The number of years in the specified period in which the employer is required to make a specified matching contribution.

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The total period of time for which a required minimum employer matching contribution is specified in some of the years.

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- Definition

Defined contribution plan minimum age limit for eligibility to participate in plan.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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The amount of the cost recognized during the period for defined contribution plans.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 715
-SubTopic 70
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=49170846&loc=d3e28014-114942

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Percentage of employees' gross pay for which the employer contributes a matching contribution to a defined contribution plan.

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Percentage employer matches of the employee's percentage contribution matched.

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Employee Benefit Plan (Details)	1 Months Ended	12 Months Ended		24 Months Ended
Employee Benefit Plan (Details)	Dec. 31, 2015 item	Dec. 31, 2015 USD ($) item	Dec. 31, 2014 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2015
AxoGen Simple IRA Plan
Defined Benefit Plan
Age limit for eligibility to participate in the plan		18
Matching contributions		3.00%	3.00%
Required minimum contribution				3.00%
Number of years during period specified		3
Period specified requiring minimum match of 3%		5 years
Contributed matching funds \| $		$ 172,089	$ 146,681
AxoGen 401K Plan
Defined Benefit Plan
Age limit for eligibility to participate in the plan	18
Employee contribution matched, percent	5.00%
Axogen 401K Plan, employee's contribution of first 3% of annual salary
Defined Benefit Plan
Matching contributions	3.00%
Employee contribution matched, percent	3.00%
Axogen 401K Plan, employee's contribution of next 2% of annual salary
Defined Benefit Plan
Matching contributions	1.00%
Employee contribution matched, percent	2.00%
Minimum \| AxoGen Simple IRA Plan
Defined Benefit Plan
Matching contributions		1.00%
Maximum \| AxoGen Simple IRA Plan
Defined Benefit Plan
Matching contributions		3.00%