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Adam S. Cooper

Senior Counsel

Adam S. Cooper

Senior Counsel

Adam Cooper focuses his practice on health care regulatory compliance, transactions, and reimbursement matters. He advises hospitals, health systems, ambulatory surgery centers, physician practices, value-based care organizations, and ancillary providers, including durable medical equipment suppliers, pharmacies, home health and hospice agencies, laboratories, independent diagnostic testing facilities, skilled nursing facilities, long-term care facilities, and medical device manufacturers and distributors, on regulatory issues affecting their operations, growth strategies, and transactions.

Adam regularly counsels clients on federal and state health care regulatory requirements, including the Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute, Civil Monetary Penalties Law, corporate practice of medicine restrictions, contracting, reimbursement, Medicare and Medicaid enrollment, licensure, and change-of-ownership considerations. He also assists clients with internal investigations, government and commercial payor audits, overpayment appeals, UPIC and Medicare Advantage matters, payment suspensions, PTAN revocations, and responses to inquiries, investigations, and other actions by federal and state regulatory bodies.

In transactional matters, Adam advises clients on the regulatory aspects of health care mergers, acquisitions, investments, and platform growth strategies, including diligence, deal structuring, licensure, enrollment, reimbursement, ownership disclosure, and post-closing compliance planning. He has particular experience supporting transactions and advisory matters involving ambulatory surgery centers, sleep medicine and testing businesses, DME suppliers, physician practices, telehealth and remote patient monitoring arrangements, and other ancillary provider models.

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, 鈥淢edicare: Prescriptions Now May Be Used to Support Medical Necessity of Durable Medical Equipment,鈥 Health Care Law Today (October 2, 2024)
  • Co-author, Hospitals鈥 Role in Combatting the Opioid Crisis, Healthcare Business Today (April 2, 2019)
  • Co-author, New Developments in Medicare鈥檚 DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Program, Compliance Today Magazine (March 2019)
  • Co-author, Post-Payment Audit: What鈥檚 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)
June 1, 2026 Health Care Law Today

DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Structures: CMS Confirms Important Flexibility for Round 2028

Under the Medicare DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Program, suppliers compete by submitting bids to furnish certain items in designated competitive bidding areas, with contract awards and payment amounts set through the competitive process rather than the fee schedule.
February 26, 2026 Health Care Law Today

CMS鈥檚 New DMEPOS Enrollment Moratorium: What Suppliers Need to Know

On February 25, 2026, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced, among other actions, a six-month nationwide...
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July 23, 2025 Health Care Law Today

Update: CMS Extends Skilled Nursing Facilities鈥 Medicare Revalidation Deadline

On April 17, 2025, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced another extension of the deadline by which skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) must revalidate their Medicare enrollments.
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October 2, 2024 Health Care Law Today

Medicare: Prescriptions Now May Be Used to Support Medical Necessity of Durable Medical Equipment

On September 26, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services鈥 Durable Medical Equipment (DME) Medicare Administrative Contractors, Noridian Healthcare Solutions, LLC and CGS Administrators, LLC, revised their Policy Article A55426 - Standard Documentation Requirements for All Claims Submitted to DME MACs regarding documentation that constitutes a patient鈥檚 鈥渕edical record鈥 for purposes of demonstrating medical necessity and justifying payment for covered DME items.