Adam Cooper focuses his practice on health care law. Adam represents hospitals, health systems, and other ancillary health care providers such as durable medical equipment suppliers, pharmacies, home health and hospice agencies, laboratories, diagnostic testing facilities, skilled nursing facilities, and long-term care facilities in health care regulatory compliance, transactional, and litigation matters. His regulatory compliance matters include analysis of complex and federal regulatory issues, including Stark, Anti-Kickback and Civil Monetary Penalties, contracting, reimbursement, Medicare and Medicaid enrollment, overpayment audits and appeals, internal investigations, and investigations by federal and state governmental bodies. Adam’s transactional matters include advising clients on regulatory aspects of health care transactions, including compliance, corporate structuring, changes of ownership, diligence, enrollment, licensure, and reimbursement. He also has experience in litigation matters including government and private payer audits and disputes on behalf of providers and suppliers.
Awards and Recognition
- American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network Judicial Advocacy Initiative Award Recipient (2023)
Affiliations
- Member, Dallas Bar Association, Health Law Section
- Member, American Health Law Association
- Associate, Higginbotham Inn of Court (2018)
Community Involvement
- Represented the American Cancer Society Cancer Network, and coordinated with other medical, research, and patient advocacy organizations, to draft, revise, and file amicus curiae briefs before the district courts, Fifth Circuit, and Supreme Court in support of petitioners in California v. Texas and Braidwood Management, Inc. et al. v. Xavier Becerra er al.
Presentations and Publications
- Co-author, “Medicare: Prescriptions Now May Be Used to Support Medical Necessity of Durable Medical Equipment,” Health Care Law Today (October 2, 2024)
- Co-author, Hospitals’ Role in Combatting the Opioid Crisis, Healthcare Business Today (April 2, 2019)
- Co-author, New Developments in Medicare’s DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Program, Compliance Today Magazine (March 2019)
- Co-author, Post-Payment Audit: What’s a Medicare Provider to Do?, HEADNOTES, Dallas Bar Association (February 2018)
- Co-author, Employment Law Update, Texas Federal Cases 2017-18, State Bar of Texas, 26th Annual Advance Employment Law Seminar (January 18-19, 2018)
