Lucet Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Emcara Health

June 03, 2025 at 09:00 AM EDT

Combined Entities Will Elevate the Timely Delivery of Behavioral Health Navigation and High-Quality In-Home Medical Care, Bridging Emergent Gaps in Healthcare

Lucet, a leading behavioral health company providing tech-enabled services to health plans, employers, and providers, today announced its acquisition of Emcara Health (previously PopHealthCare, a GuideWell Company), a national, value-based medical group focused on delivering home-based care to clinically complex and high-risk populations. The acquisition will address the growing need for integrated care models that are aligned with co-morbid chronic conditions and behavioral health management.

“Lucet’s long-term strategy is to continuously evolve, identifying product and service gaps to address our members’ health needs. With the acquisition of Emcara Health, we will be able to offer even more comprehensive ways to deliver care, assess behavioral health needs and quickly connect individuals to the high-quality healthcare resources they require,” said Shana Hoffman, President and CEO of Lucet. “With Emcara’s well-established operations in markets where Lucet also has overlapping member populations, we are empowered to provide dual services for our members’ co-morbid chronic medical and behavioral health conditions in the future.”

Emcara Health has been at the forefront of delivering a proven model for in-home medical care in urban and rural communities across the United States. Dedicated to improving the quality of life for populations with complex health challenges, its integrated suite of in-home care spans advanced primary care, longitudinal complex care management and treatment, transition of care, and annual assessments. The bedrock of this model is to facilitate industry-leading outcomes across the quadruple aim in health care through Emcara’s care teams, which include a medical director, advanced practice provider, registered nurses, community health workers, and care coordination support.

“As a value-based national medical group, Emcara Health has been focused on a singular mission of reimagining how healthcare is delivered,” said Jeff Goddard, Executive Vice President and CFO of GuideWell. “Through this acquisition their proven model for in-home care solutions will be leveraged in combination with Lucet’s behavioral health expertise, bringing to market new integrated care models that will have a substantial clinical impact on how members’ complex chronic and behavioral health conditions are successfully managed together in the future.”

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), patients with chronic medical conditions are two to three times more likely to suffer from behavioral health conditions, yet only one third of those diagnosed receive treatment. Time is of the essence to ensure today’s health care organizations can offer appropriate access to medical and behavioral health care. Lucet, in its unique position as the only end-to-end solution enabling member connection to behavioral health care and patient-provider matching across the entire acuity spectrum, has historically focused on improving member access through quality, speed to care, and measured outcomes. Through the acquisition of Emcara, the combined entities will begin piloting integrated care models in active markets and explore future opportunities to scale its clinical operations to improve the lives of even more members. This blueprint includes assessing behavioral health conditions and connecting patients to care through a multidisciplinary care team during in-home and virtual visits.

“As an industry, we are seeing a growing need for and increasing investment in care models that are aligned to address co-morbid chronic conditions and behavioral health concurrently,” said Thurman Justice, President and CEO of Triple S Management and Chairman of the Board of Lucet. “Moving forward, we believe that the combined entities of Lucet and Emcara Health will revolutionize how care is delivered, combining advanced technology with compassionate, whole-person care to address these key gaps.”

About Lucet

Lucet is the only end-to-end solution enabling member connection to care across the entire acuity spectrum and supporting patient-provider matching— improving access through quality, speed and outcomes. Our unique combination of people, clinical expertise and technology is changing how health plans manage their networks, providers manage care pathways, and members manage their health. Powered by more than 15 million assessments and more than 20 years of data, Lucet is proven to successfully identify and connect people across the entire acuity spectrum with the right care in less than five days on average, and often as little as one day. Lucet is headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas. For more information, visit LucetHealth.com.

About Emcara Health

Emcara Health is at the forefront of delivering a proven model for in-home care solutions. With a passionate team of dedicated healthcare experts, we improve the quality of life for vulnerable populations with health challenges across urban and rural communities. Our integrated suite of in-home care solutions spans advanced primary care, complex care management and treatment, transition of care, and annual in-home assessments. Our physician-led multidisciplinary care teams deliver industry-leading outcomes across the quadruple aim in health care delivery – patient experience, quality, lower cost of care and joy in work. Part of PopHealthCare (a GuideWell Company), Emcara Health is one of the nation’s leading value-based medical groups, focused on the mission of reimagining how healthcare is delivered. For more information, visit emcarahealth.com.