Our Heritage — your health in good hands.
Heritage Provider Network was founded, by Dr. Richard Merkin, in 1979 on a then-radical idea: that a group of doctors could run a better, fairer, more sustainable health system than anyone else. Forty-seven years later, we have over 800,000 members, and over 5,000 employees across the United States. Heritage Provider Network is the largest group of physician-owned IPAs in the country.
Ten medical groups. One standard of care.
Each group keeps its own identity, community roots, and physician network — contracting its own primary and specialty physicians. HPN provides the shared infrastructure, data, and support so every group can deliver better care, closer to home.
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Risk-bearing arrangements with payers across California, Arizona, and New York.
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Heritage’s reach extends well beyond clinical care — into accreditation, biomedical research, and partnerships with the country’s leading academic and scientific institutions.
Dr. Richard Merkin
Physician, founder of Heritage Provider Network, and patron of biomedical research, mathematics, and education at the country’s leading institutions.
Read Dr. Merkin's profile →A four-decade legacy of giving
Heritage Medical Research Institute, the Merkin Family Foundation, the Merkin Prize, prize challenges, and partnerships with Caltech, Broad, USC, UCLA, Hopkins, and more.
Explore the work →Scale that only a physician-led network can build.
2024 Medicare Advantage
† Member counts per HPN's Overview page. "Elite" Star Ratings per HPN's November 2024 press release.
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