Lucet, a leading behavioral health company offering tech-enabled services to health plans, employers, and providers, announced the acquisition of Emcara Health (previously PopHealthCare), a national value-based medical group focused on delivering home-based care to clinically complex and high-risk populations.
This deal addresses the growing need for integrated care models that align with co-occurring chronic conditions and behavioral health management.
Emcara Health has been at the forefront of providing a proven model for in-home medical care in urban and rural communities across the US. Focused on improving the quality of life for people with complex health challenges, its integrated suite of in-home care encompasses advanced primary care, longitudinal complex care management and treatment, care transitions, and annual assessments.
The fundamentals of this model are to facilitate industry-leading outcomes across the quadruple aim in healthcare through Emcara’s care teams, which include a medical director, advanced practice providers, registered nurses, community health workers, and care coordination support.
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 whole acuity spectrum and it has historically focused on improving member access through quality, speed to care, and measured outcomes. Via 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.
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“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. 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.”
Shana Hoffman, President and CEO of Lucet
“As a value-based national medical group, Emcara Health has been focused on a singular mission of reimagining how healthcare is delivered. 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.”
Jeff Goddard, Executive Vice President and CFO of GuideWell
“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. 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.”
Thurman Justice, President and CEO of Triple S Management and Chairman of the Board of Lucet
