Roger A. Cohen is a partner in Goodwin’s Healthcare practice, advising healthcare services, life sciences, digital health, and investor clients on compliance with laws and regulations such as the Anti-Kickback Statute, the Stark Law, the False Claims Act, HIPAA, and Medicare and Medicaid rules. He provides guidance on reimbursement, licensure, and certification issues.
Roger has significant experience in healthcare transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, venture and growth equity financings, and capital markets deals. He has represented clients in transactions across a wide range of healthcare sectors, including hospitals, physician groups, skilled nursing facilities, behavioral health providers, and digital health companies.
He is also well-versed in advising digital health companies, working with businesses in areas like telemedicine, electronic health records, artificial intelligence, and mobile health, offering strategic counsel and transaction support.
In addition to transactional work, Roger has a strong record in government investigations and litigation, representing healthcare and digital health clients in fraud investigations. He has frequently succeeded in convincing the government not to pursue enforcement actions and has obtained dismissals in litigation cases. He also assists with internal investigations related to fraud and abuse, offering guidance on self-disclosures.
Roger also handles managed care reimbursement disputes and litigation, and he has set legal precedent in New York by securing an implied private right of action for healthcare providers under the state’s Prompt Payment Law.
Recognized as a leading healthcare lawyer by Chambers USA, Best Lawyers, and Super Lawyers, Roger is praised for his regulatory expertise, practical advice, and good judgment. He teaches healthcare law at Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences in the Executive MBA/MS Healthcare Leadership program and frequently speaks at industry events. Roger also publishes articles on healthcare law and contributes to legal treatises, including editing a chapter on healthcare privacy.
Before joining Goodwin in 2017, Roger served as senior counsel at Proskauer Rose.
