Wakaba Tessier

Wakaba Tessier focuses her practice on minimizing risks for healthcare providers by ensuring their compliance with federal and state requirements. Wakaba advises a wide range of healthcare providers and organizations, including specialty pharmacies and infusion providers, physician groups, hospitals and health systems, clinical laboratories, behavioral health providers, home health agencies, telemedicine companies, healthcare-related start-ups, research institutions and higher education, and others.

Wakaba guides clients through a variety of regulatory matters, including reimbursement issues, third-party payor audits, medical staff credentialing and privileging, clinical research agreements, physician compensation arrangements, and general business operations. She regularly counsels companies on compliance with the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, the Stark Law, and the False Claims Act.

In addition to regulatory counsel, Wakaba assists with various transactions within the healthcare industry, including mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions.

Wakaba also has significant experience with healthcare data privacy and cybersecurity matters. She advises on privacy laws, health information confidentiality, data breaches, mental health records, and cross-state recordkeeping and data transfers.