Frederick Azar
Sports Medicine · Germantown, TNNPI 1821084633
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by ownership interests: $52,713 of the $54,336 with a category attached, or 97.0%. Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated accounts for 97.0% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $36,631 and has fallen 99.3% since, to $261 in 2025. Among sports medicine clinicians in TN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 13 payments — averaging $4179.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$53K
- Pacira Cryotech Incorporated$750
- Smith+Nephew$304
- Zimmer Biomet$255
- Gentleman Orthopedic Solutions$155
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$111
- plus $47 from 2 others
Across 8 payments — averaging $1109.38 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Zimmer Biomet$9K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7501%
- Food & beverage$5691%
- Education$3041%
- Ownership interest$52,71397%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 5 | $52,713 |
| Pacira Cryotech Incorporated | 1 | $750 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $304 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $255 |
| Gentleman Orthopedic Solutions | 1 | $155 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $111 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $26 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $21 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- EXPAREL$35,881
- IOVERA SYSTEM$17,582
- Q-FIX$304
- TWINFIX$304
- Healicoil$304
- CLARIX$111
- Comprehensive Shoulder System$106
How this compares
$54,336 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 147 sports medicine providers in Tennessee.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 144 | $1,021 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 35 | $172 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 13 | $155 |
| Meloxicam | 66 | $150 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 28 | $144 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 38 | $64 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 13 | $32 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 14 | $3 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Germantown
- Steven SamborskiGermantown$41K
- James DoveGermantown$29K
- Barry PhillipsGermantown$6K
- Jeffrey DlabachCollierville$504K
- Ian ByramFranklin$252K
- Jw ByrdNashville$248K
- Lucas RichieLebanon$159K
- Zachary PharrColumbia$75K
- Colin LooneyFranklin$68K
- Jonathan BryantBristol$67K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.