Mr. Coons has a long history of counseling and litigating on behalf of hospital systems, academic medical centers, community hospitals, and other health care entities regarding Medicare payment, coverage, and compliance. He is a national authority on a variety of issues, including Medicare's provider-based rules, payments for graduate medical education, Medicare's nursing and allied health rules, and Medicare's teaching physician rules, as well as other issues that hospitals frequently face.
Mr. Coons is a former member of the board of directors of the American Health Law Association (AHLA), is the past chair of that organization's Medicare and Medicaid Payment Institute, and is a Fellow of the organization. He is a frequent speaker at conferences on Medicare payment and compliance issues.
Before entering private practice, Mr. Coons served as senior attorney in the Office of the General Counsel at the Department of Health and Human Services where he handled major controversies involving reimbursement and coverage under the Medicare program. Prior to that, Mr. Coons was in private practice where he was engaged in civil and white collar criminal matters, including the representation of a major Watergate figure.