Michael Axe
Sports Medicine · Newark, DENPI 1578534558
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $88,531 of the $120,329 with a category attached, or 73.6%. Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. accounts for 77.8% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $59,321 and has fallen 76.3% since, to $14,080 in 2024.
Across 154 payments — averaging $781.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$94K
- Convatec Inc.$20K
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$6K
- Amgen$221
- Arthrex$209
- Smith+Nephew$124
- plus $197 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$24,79121%
- Speaking & faculty fees$88,53174%
- Travel & lodging$2,6002%
- Food & beverage$4,4074%
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 Therapeutics, Inc. | 96 | $93,591 |
| Convatec Inc. | 14 | $19,792 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 9 | $6,196 |
| Amgen | 22 | $221 |
| Arthrex | 3 | $209 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $124 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $106 |
| Liberty Surgical Inc. | 1 | $53 |
| Triad Life Sciences Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Stryker | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Zilretta$97,343
- InnovaMatrix AC$19,435
- Iovera$1,141
- ARTHREX$138
How this compares
Too few sports medicine providers in Delawareto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Other sports medicine in Newark
- Joseph StraightNewark$6K
- Bradley BleyNewark$3K
- Evan CrainNewark$1K
- Craig SternbergNewark$131
- Geoffrey GustavsenNewark$16
- Matthew VoltzWilmington$831
- Arnold GlassmanWilmington$485
- Barry BakstWilmington$200
- Terrence TsuiDover$71
- Claire SheltonWilmington$53
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.