Thoughtful counsel on an array of health care regulatory issues

Wakaba Tessier helps clients navigate the complex health care regulatory landscape at both the state and federal level. She advises on a variety of health care issues, privacy and data concerns, third-party payor audits and inquiries, and day-to-day operational matters. Wakaba also is experienced dealing with issues related to the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Law and the False Claims Act, as well as related implications for emerging companies in health care mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and financing transactions. Her clients include:

• Physician groups
• Specialty pharmacies and infusion providers
• Health care-related startups
• Other health care providers, such as clinical laboratories, behavioral health care providers and educational institutions

Wakaba provides personalized guidance to clients by immersing herself in their business, striving to understand their business goals and strategic plans so she can truly be their business partner. Simultaneously sharp and collegial, she makes each client feel their work is important.

Wakaba also has in-house experience, having served as executive vice president and general counsel for a life sciences company in Syracuse, N.Y. Before beginning her legal career, she was a research associate at a health care consulting company.

Bar Admissions

• Illinois
• Kansas
• Missouri

Education

• Valparaiso University (M.S., 2008)
  • International Commerce and Policy

• Washington University in St. Louis School of Law (J.D., 2009)
  • Washington University Law Review, managing editor

• Wellesley College (B.A., 2002)

• FDA Publishes Final Rule on Regulation of Lab-Developed Tests