Mr. Becker is co-chairman of McGuireWoods' Health Care Department. He practices exclusively in the health care regulatory and transactional area. He devotes his efforts to surgery center, hospital and health care provider related transactions, joint ventures, securities, contracting and regulatory matters.

He provides counsel to hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, surgical hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, multi and single specialty medical practices, and a wide variety of health care industry entrepreneurs. He provides service on a national basis to privately held and publicly traded companies relating to health care transactional and regulatory matters, including counsel under the Medicare/Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Statute, the Stark Act, and the Internal Revenue Code Sections 501(c)(3) and c(9).

During the past several years, Mr. Becker has devoted a substantial majority of his time and efforts related to ambulatory surgery centers and to hospitals and health systems. His efforts have included structuring ambulatory surgery center joint ventures; providing legal opinions regarding the 501(c)3, fraud and abuse statute, self referral and Stark implications of surgery center business and physician relationships; drafting and implementing private placements and joint ventures of surgical centers; procuring Certificate of Need determinations; reviewing reimbursement related issues; reviewing antitrust issues; negotiating business contracts; drafting and implementing compliance plans; negotiating private equity investments; and providing advice and counsel on a broad range of business and legal issues. He also has worked with magnetic resonance and other imaging facilities, as well as with cardiac catheterization facilities.