Hackensack Meridian Health has reached more than 5,000 patients with telemedicine over the past two years, and according to CEO Robert Garrett that population is expected to grow.

Through Quartet Health, Horizon BCBSNJ is providing an online platform primary care doctors can use to connect their patients with mental health providers in the insurer's network.

New Jersey joins California, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Vermont and Washington D.C. as the latest state to allow terminally ill patients to request a doctor to prescribe a lethal dosage of medication in order to end their own lives.

The transaction, announced in January, remains on track to close in the third quarter of 2019.

Despite declines in affirmative results for opiates, oxycodones, heroin and cocaine, The Quest Diagnostics Drug Testing Index shows an increase in overall positivity results, results for the presence of marijuana, and for post-accident positivity testing results.

The state’s largest health care system will serve as an official partner and the official health care provider of the New Jersey-based National Women’s Soccer League franchise.

In March, a report from the State Commission of Investigation found that CarePoint paid $157 million to management companies, owned by CarePoint’s owners, even though those management companies had no employees and limited operating expenses.

The law requires health insurers to provide coverage for mental health conditions and substance use disorders under the same terms and conditions as provided for any other sickness and to meet the requirements of the Federal Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act.

Dr. Alfred Tallia, professor and chair of Family Medicine and Community Health at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, will serve as the chair of the National Board of Medical Examiners.

The Bridgewater-based company announced it would expand its Insulins Valyou Savings Program so that people living with diabetes in the U.S. can access Sanofi insulins with a valid prescription, for $99.

The New Jersey Senator's office said that contraception is an essential part of reproductive health care and patients who need this care should be able to access it in a timely manner.

Harvest Health and Recreation will acquire CannaPharmacy, which owns or operates cannabis licenses in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland. The company also holds a minority interest in a pending licensee in Colombia.