How We Practice

Independent practices are facing growing administrative complexity, workforce shortages, reimbursement pressure, and increasing regulatory demands. Hera allows physician leaders to continue practicing medicine while gaining the operational support, clinical collaboration, and financial stability of a larger physician-led network.

Why Practices Choose Hera

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Preserve Your Identity

Your name, reputation, providers, and community relationships remain at the center of your practice.
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Maintain Clinical Autonomy

Clinical decisions remain physician-led not directed by corporate administrators.
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Strengthen Your Practice

Shared recruiting, credentialing, revenue cycle, marketing, HR, technology, and operational support reduce administrative burden.
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Grow with Confidence

Access a collaborative network of specialists, providers, and leadership committed to improving outcomes together.
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Secure Your Legacy

Whether you’re planning succession or your next stage of growth, Hera structures a partnership, including partner equity, around your personal and professional goals.

What Partnership Looks Like

Every Hera practice is unique, but all share the same philosophy: preserve local leadership while strengthening long-term sustainability.

Each practice maintains its own identity while benefiting from shared operational infrastructure and physician-led collaboration.

Our network includes

  • Physician-owned OB/GYN practices
  • Multi-provider women’s health practices
  • Maternal-Fetal Medicine centers
  • Hospital partnerships and laborist programs

What Changes and What Doesn’t

What Stays the Same

  • Practice Name
  • Physicians and Providers
  • Patient Relationships
  • Local Leadership
  • Clinical Decision-making

What Gets Better

  • Recruiting
  • Revenue Cycle
  • Marketing
  • Credentialing
  • HR
  • Technology
  • Contracting
  • Compliance
  • Operational Support

Clinical Collaboration Across the Network

At Hera, collaboration isn’t occasional, it’s built into the way we deliver care.

Providers benefit from

  • Direct Maternal-Fetal Medicine consultation
  • OB/GYN physician collaboration
  • Certified Nurse Midwife integration
  • Advanced Practice Providers
  • Shared clinical protocols
  • Multidisciplinary case reviews
  • Network-wide peer consultation

Clinical Excellence

Evidence That Matters

24.7%

Lower preterm birth rate

3,474

Births

Level III

NICU affiliation

SMFM

Lifetime Achievement leadership

Operational Support

Everything outside the exam room.
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Credentialing

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Revenue Cycle

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HR

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Technology

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Marketing

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Recruiting

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Facilities

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Compliance

Leadership & Growth

Growth at Hera isn’t just practice growth, it’s your growth. Physicians who join Hera find real pathways to lead, teach, and shape the future of the network, not just a seat at a larger table.
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Governance & Committees

Help guide clinical and operational decisions through medical advisory and specialty committees.
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Mentorship

Shape the next generation of MFM, OB/GYN, and CNM providers through structured mentorship.
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Research & Quality Initiatives

Contribute to outcomes research and evidence-based protocols, backed by Hera’s shared data infrastructure.
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Market & Practice Expansion

Have a voice in where and how the network grows next.
Leadership at Hera isn’t a title on an org chart, it’s an ongoing role in how the network cares for women, together.

Physician-Led by Design

Physician Leadership Isn’t a Slogan

Hera is led by practicing physicians who understand the realities of delivering women’s healthcare. Clinical decisions are guided by providers, informed by outcomes, and strengthened through collaboration by provider informed outcomes, and strengthened through collaboration, not dictated by corporate priorities.

Values

  • Physician Leadership
  • Clinical Autonomy
  • Collaboration
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Better Outcomes

The Partnership Process

1

Connect with Our Team

We start with a face-to-face conversation to understand you, your practice, and your goals.

2

Structure the Deal

Hera customizes a transaction structure around your personal and professional goals.

3

Secure Your Legacy

Maintain operational control and protect the culture you’ve built while gaining Hera’s collaborative support.

4

Create Your Path

Whether it’s practice growth or succession planning, we work with you to build a future aligned with your goals.

5

Receive Partner Equity

As Hera grows and scales, you benefit from ongoing earnings potential and shared success.

Start the Conversation

Every practice comes to Hera with different goals. The clearest way to find out what partnership could look like for yours is to talk with our team directly.