Mercy Health Plans MHP was established in 1994 by the Sisters of Mercy Health System St. Louis. The Sisters of Mercy Health System started their mission of care in 1871 in St. Louis, Missouri. Today, Mercy Health Plans still asserts its commitment to providing health care with respect and dignity to each person. The MHP integrated health care delivery system operates in the communities of Metropolitan St. Louis and Central and Southwestern Missouri and Laredo, Texas.
Mercy Health Plans provides products including PPO, HMO, and POS group coverage, Medicare Advantage, PremierOne individual health insurance, and Childrens Health Insurance Programs.
The Mercy Health Plans system operates with the same mission that was established by the Sisters of Mercy. This mission includes a commitment to creating plans that connect communities with high quality health networks; accepting risk, responsibility and accountability for health status, treatment results, and cost effective care; using special skills of managed care medical professionals to improve access to health care for all people; taking responsibility for the health of the greater community while paying special attention to the underserved; treating all individuals with dignity and respect while providing valuable medical services.
As a Mercy Health Plans member, you can take advantage of online health education resources, interactive health calculators, tobacco cessation assistance, a Healthwise Knowledgebase covering a variety of medical issues, animated surgery graphics, drug interaction checkers, and health headlines articles that are updated weekly to reflect health care issues in the news.