Leech Tishman

Partner

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 home 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.