Jeff Loewy

Healthcare Attorney | Strategic Partnerships | Legal Operations & Contracting Systems

14+ years at Duke Health • strategic affiliations • physician agreements • healthcare contracting at scale

I help healthcare organizations scale contracting, reduce regulatory risk, and build systems that make legal a strategic partner — not a bottleneck.

Built internal contract analytics, reporting, and document automation systems while simultaneously serving as transactional counsel for one of the nation's leading academic health systems.

14+ years
at Duke Health
~250
physicians supported
200-300
agreeemnts in CMS innovation model

Impact

  • Built and deployed an internal contract analytics and reporting platform with dynamic filtering, compliance validation, and lifecycle tracking
  • Designed and implemented a document automation system (PHP/OpenTBS) generating dynamic contracts with rule-based clause selection
  • Led legal strategy for ~250 physician employment agreements across three hospitals  
  • Structured arrangements within Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute constraints in compensation and operational structures
  • Negotiated and managed affiliation, telehealth, academic, physician, and healthcare services agreements supporting clinical operations across multiple states
  • Redesigned physician compensation structures to align regulatory compliance with recruitment and retention goals across a multi-hospital system 
  • Supported strategic affiliation and network partnerships spanning oncology, cardiovascular, stroke/telestroke, and quality service lines

Selected Programs

  • Led contracting support for Duke Health participation in a CMS innovation model, managing 200-300 agreements and related documents across providers, payers, and operational stakeholders.
  • Supported a multi-state telestroke network extending specialty stroke expertise into community hospitals.
  • Served as primary legal support for physician employment arrangements across three hospitals and approximately 250 physicians.
  • Structured the Duke PA Program's COVID-19 contact-tracing partnership with Durham County Public Health.  
  • Managed large-scale contracting infrastructure supporting nationwide health-professions clinical education programs.

How I Work

My career has focused on helping healthcare organizations operate at scale. Whether supporting physician employment programs, strategic hospital affiliations, telehealth networks, clinical education programs, or value-based care initiatives, I combine transactional legal expertise with process design and operational systems thinking.

I view legal as infrastructure — when designed well, it scales the business; when designed poorly, it slows it down.

Selected Tools & Systems

  • Contract Analytics Platform — dynamic reporting, validation, and compliance tracking  
  • Automated Contract Generator — template-driven system with rule-based clause logic  
  • Antitrust Compliance Remediation Workflow — automated agreement review and generation of hundreds of customized amendment documents  

Focus Areas

Healthcare Transactions
Strategic Partnerships
Health System Affiliations
Telehealth Networks
Value-Based Care
Physician Contracting
Contract Operations
Legal Operations
Healthcare Technology
Regulatory Strategy
Academic Medicine
Process Automation