About Rachel A. Adams

Perhaps the only thing more complex than health care today is the regulatory landscape in which it is practiced. Rachel Adams is a health care lawyer who focuses on helping health systems, physician groups and other health care providers navigate the health care regulatory landscape, complex transactions, and general corporate matters.

Keeping health care businesses healthy

Rachel assists both physician groups and private equity-backed health care platforms in structuring and negotiating complex transactions. She also guides health systems through transactions ranging from affiliations to acquisitions. She advises on complex regulatory issues involving the Stark Law, the Anti-Kickback Statute, state corporate practice of medicine laws, and fee-splitting laws. Rachel can also rely on her governmental experience to counsel clients facing antitrust issues.

Rachel's experience also includes representing health care providers in defense of Medicare audits, Medicaid audits, and in False Claims Act litigation. Finally, she has represented chain, independent, wholesale and veterinarian pharmacies in regulatory and transactional matters.

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Practice Focus

  • Health care
  • Health care regulation and compliance
  • Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement
  • Health care transactions
  • Privacy, data and cybersecurity
  • Health care litigation

Representative Experience

  • Assisted national anesthesia management services provider in transactions involving multiple anesthesia providers.
  • Guided multiple physician groups in a variety of specialties in transactions involving private-equity backed national platforms.
  • Successfully closed a non-profit health care system’s purchase of a hospital while guiding the transaction through an FTC investigation.
  • Assisted health care investment fund in financing the purchase of multiple hospitals across multiple states. Worked across offices and disciplines providing high-quality, efficient results.  
  • Drafted compliance policies for health care system, yielding understanding of numerous laws impacting day-to-day operations.  
  • Represented hospital system responding to multiple Medicaid reimbursement audits, saving the client from repaying multiple claims.
  • Won False Claims Act case for two clients being sued together. The lawsuit alleged both clients caused Medicaid to pay ineligible claims. We established the plaintiff failed to allege any type of false claim or meet federal pleading standards. The case was dismissed with prejudice, saving clients time and resources of protracted litigation.
  • Assisted national pharmacy chain with licensing issues and Medicare Part D compliance.

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  • Saint Louis University School of Law, LLM
  • University of Denver Sturm College of Law, JD
  • Saint Louis University, BS
Bar Admissions
  • District of Columbia
  • Illinois
  • Nebraska
  • New York
Community Involvements
  • American Bar Association, Health Law Section
  • American Health Law Association (AHLA)
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Recognized or listed in the following:
  • Best Lawyers in America
    Ones to Watch
    Health Care Law, 2024–2025
    Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2024–2025
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