Esperance K. Becton

Esperance Becton is an associate in the Corporate Practice Group in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office and a member of the Healthcare Industry team.

Areas of Practice

Esperance advises healthcare clients, including hospitals and health systems, provider groups, technology companies, telehealth providers, and commercial insurers on a range of healthcare regulatory and transactional matters. Esperance supports healthcare industry clients in transactional matters that include joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions. Her regulatory representative scope of practice includes issues involving HIPAA/data privacy and security, regulatory compliance, interoperability and information blocking, and state and federal fraud, waste and abuse laws. Esperance counsels telehealth providers on federal and state laws concerning scope of coverage, reimbursement, consent, licensure, privacy and documentation requirements. Esperance’s practice is proudly centered on the evolving technological advancements in healthcare, as she also supports the Sheppard Mullin Healthy AI initiative focused on legal issues related to the use of AI in healthcare, including governance, contractual matters, and data related issues.

Esperance brings a breadth of healthcare industry knowledge to her client work due to her broad background in healthcare. Prior to private practice, Esperance worked as a Health Law Fellow at MedStar Health, the largest healthcare system in Maryland and the Washington, D.C. region, and was a law clerk at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Honors

The National Black Lawyers Top 40 Under 40, Washington, D.C.

Super Lawyers as a Washington, DC “Rising Star,” 2023-2024

Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Health Care, 2021, 2022, 2024

Lawyers of Color Hot List, 2020

Articles

• Co-author, “The Unintended Promise: HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices Can Give Rise to State Law Contract Claim,” Journal of Health Care Compliance, November - December 2020

Healthcare Law Blog Posts

• "Over 940,000 Medicare Beneficiaries Impacted by Data Breach," October 23, 2024
• "Navigating the Complex Landscape of AI Governance: Principles and Frameworks for Responsible Innovation," September 4, 2024

• "Key Elements of an AI Governance Program in Healthcare," August 29, 2024

• "Building a Robust AI Governance Program in Healthcare," August 19, 2024

• "The PACE Solution to Increasing Demands for Long-Term Services and Supports in the U.S.," November 2, 2023
• "State Privacy Law Roundup: What Health Care Companies Need to Know," July 26, 2023
• "Telehealth in a Post-PHE World," March 3, 2023

Events

Digital Media