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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001558370-18-001985
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	8-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		3
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20180309
ITEM INFORMATION:		Changes in Registrant's Certifying Accountant
ITEM INFORMATION:		Financial Statements and Exhibits
FILED AS OF DATE:		20180313
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20180313

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			AxoGen, Inc.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000805928
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	ELECTROMEDICAL & ELECTROTHERAPEUTIC APPARATUS [3845]
		IRS NUMBER:				411301878
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			MN
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		8-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-36046
		FILM NUMBER:		18686448

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		13631 PROGRESS BLVD.
		STREET 2:		SUITE 400
		CITY:			ALACHUA
		STATE:			FL
		ZIP:			32615
		BUSINESS PHONE:		(386) 462-6817

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		13631 PROGRESS BLVD.
		STREET 2:		SUITE 400
		CITY:			ALACHUA
		STATE:			FL
		ZIP:			32615

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	LECTEC CORP /MN/
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19920703
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			<font style="display:inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;font-size:11pt;">ITEM 4.01.&nbsp;&nbsp;CHANGES IN REGISTRANT&#x2019;S CERTIFYING ACCOUNTANT</font>
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			<font style="display:inline;font-size:11pt;">(a)&nbsp;&nbsp;Dismissal of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm</font>
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			<font style="display:inline;font-size:11pt;">Lurie, LLP(&#x201C;Lurie&#x201D;) has been AxoGen, Inc.&#x2019;s (the &#x201C;Company&#x201D;) auditing firm for many years.&nbsp;&nbsp;Their services have been greatly appreciated and they supported the Company through a period of significant growth.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Company recently decided to conduct a request for proposal (&#x201C;RFP&#x201D;) for the audit of the Company&#x2019;s Financial Statements for the year ended December 31, 2018 to evaluate the services of larger firms compared to Lurie.&nbsp;&nbsp;Multiple auditing firms participated in the RFP process.&nbsp;&nbsp;After review of the final RFP candidates and Lurie, based on the proposal of Deloitte &amp; Touche&nbsp;LLP (&#x201C;Deloitte&#x201D;), and determining that the current size and expected growth of the Company can benefit from an auditing firm with a national and international presence, the Committee decided that Deloitte was the appropriate audit firm for the Company moving forward.</font>
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			<font style="display:inline;font-size:11pt;">On March 9, 2018, the Audit Committee (the &#x201C;Audit Committee&#x201D;) of the Board of Directors (the &#x201C;Board&#x201D;) of the Company took the required actions to dismiss Lurie as the Company&#x2019;s independent registered public accounting firm and provided Lurie with notice of such dismissal.</font>
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			<font style="display:inline;font-size:11pt;">The audit reports of Lurie on the Company&#x2019;s consolidated financial statements for each of the two most recent fiscal years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016 did not contain an adverse opinion or a disclaimer of opinion and were not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principles.</font>
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			<font style="display:inline;font-size:11pt;">During the Company&#x2019;s two most recent fiscal years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016, and during the subsequent interim period through March 9, 2018, (i) there were no disagreements with Lurie on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure or auditing scope or procedure, which disagreement(s), if not resolved to Lurie&#x2019;s satisfaction, would have caused Lurie to make reference to the subject matter of the disagreement(s) in connection with its reports, and (ii) there were no &#x201C;reportable events&#x201D; as that term is defined in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K, except for the material weakness in the Company's internal control over financial reporting related to the Company's maintenance of effective controls over certain non-routine and routine transactions. Specifically, material weaknesses relating to the design and operation of key controls around the use of judgment and calculations of significant estimates, as well as quarterly cycle count procedures related to consigned inventories, identified in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2016. Management's Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting included in Item 9A of Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017, states that such material weaknesses were remediated in 2017.</font>
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			<font style="display:inline;font-size:11pt;">The Company provided Lurie with a copy of the disclosures in this Current Report on Form 8-K (this &#x201C;Report&#x201D;) prior to filing this Report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#x201C;SEC&#x201D;). The Company requested that Lurie furnish it with a letter addressed to the SEC stating whether Lurie agrees with the statements made by the Company regarding Lurie in this Report and, if not, stating the respects in which it does not agree. A copy of Lurie&#x2019;s letter dated March 12, 2018 to the SEC, stating that it agrees with the statements made in this Report, is filed as Exhibit 16.1 to this Report.</font>
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			<font style="display:inline;font-size:11pt;">(b)&nbsp;&nbsp;Engagement of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm</font>
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			<font style="display:inline;font-size:11pt;">On March 12, 2018, the Company engaged Deloitte as the Company&#x2019;s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2018, which engagement was approved by the Audit Committee.</font>
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			<font style="display:inline;font-size:11pt;">During the Company&#x2019;s three most recent fiscal years ended December 31, 2017, 2016 and 2015, and during the subsequent interim period through March 9, 2018, neither the Company, nor anyone on its behalf, consulted Deloitte regarding either (i) the application of accounting principles to a specified transaction, either completed or proposed, or the type of audit opinion that might be rendered on the Company&#x2019;s consolidated financial statements, and neither a written report nor oral advice was provided to the Company that Deloitte concluded was an important factor considered by the Company in reaching a decision as to any accounting, auditing, or financial reporting issue, or (ii) any matter that was either the subject of a &#x201C;disagreement&#x201D; (as defined in Regulation S-K Item 304(a)(1)(iv)) or a &#x201C;reportable event&#x201D; (as defined in Regulation S-K Item 304(a)(1)(v)).</font>
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			<font style="display:inline;font-weight:bold;font-size:11pt;">Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits</font>
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			<font style="display:inline;font-size:11pt;">(d)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Exhibits</font>
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						<font style="display:inline;font-size:11pt;">Exhibit No.</font></p>
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						<font style="display:inline;font-size:11pt;">Letter from Lurie, LLP, dated March 13, 2018 to the Securities and Exchange Commission</font><font style="display:inline;color:#000000;font-size:11pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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			<font style="display:inline;font-weight:bold;font-size:11pt;">EXHIBIT INDEX</font>
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						<a href="ex-16d1.htm"><font style="display:inline;font-size:11pt;">Letter from Lurie, LLP, dated March 13, 2018 to the Securities and Exchange Commission</a></font></p>
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