Vitable Health Becomes Nationwide Virtual Primary Care Partner for Apaly, Expanding Advanced Primary Care Access for Enterprise Employees

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 29, 2025--

Vitable Health, the nation’s leading health benefits platform, announces its partnership with Apaly—a premier Advanced Primary Care (APC) marketplace serving large enterprises—to deliver seamless access to high-quality virtual care and mental health support for tens of thousands of employees across the U.S.

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Apaly connects major employers with best-in-class primary care partners, offering easy access to essential healthcare for tens of thousands of employees around the country. Apaly has built a strong nationwide community of in-person APC providers, and covers employees across all 50 states.

“Apaly is excited to be working with Vitable to help provide top-quality care and an amazing experience for our participating plan members and employers,” says Apaly’s Founder and CEO Dr. Jerry Beinhauer, “Vitable has been a great partner in delivering virtual Advanced Primary Care across the U.S., which establishes a true personal relationship between the patient and their clinician.”

Vitable Health’s virtual Direct Primary Care, helps to ensure that every employee outside of Apaly’s in-person primary care nationwide community can still access compassionate, affordable, and high-quality care—no matter where they live.

“Apaly’s mission to bring next-generation care to the enterprise aligns perfectly with Vitable’s vision of equitable and accessible healthcare,” said Joseph Kitonga, founder and CEO of Vitable Health. “We’re honored to work with Apaly to deliver virtual coverage nationwide and to serve enterprise employees who’ve long been overlooked by traditional health plans.”

With this partnership, Apaly and Vitable Health are setting a new standard in enterprise health benefits by ensuring that care is not bound by location. As more companies operate remotely or across multiple states, the need for scalable and inclusive healthcare access has never been more urgent.

Apaly currently serves large Fortune 500 employers, among others. With Vitable Health now integrated into the Apaly marketplace, these companies can guarantee seamless virtual access to primary care, mental health, free prescriptions, and care navigation for tens of thousands of people, no matter where they live.

“This is a major step toward closing the coverage gap for employees left out of traditional coverage networks,” Kitonga added. “We’re proud to be working with Apaly to help employers deliver care that’s both modern and meaningful.”

About Vitable Health

Vitable Health is the health benefits platform making healthcare better for everyday workers. With a focus on real access over red tape, Vitable Health offers employers affordable, ACA-compliant health benefit solutions—including MEC and MVP plans, ICHRA and QSEHRA options, Direct Primary Care, Dental and Vision coverage, and Hospital Indemnity. Every plan includes access to primary care visits, mental health services, and over 1,000 covered prescriptions and labs with zero out-of-pocket costs. To date, Vitable Health has raised $25 million from top-tier investors such as First Round Capital, Y Combinator, Cherryrock Capital, Citi Bank’s Impact Fund, Commerce Ventures, Jack Altman, Michael Seibel, Immad Akhund, and SoftBank Opportunity Fund. Learn more at vitablehealth.com.

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About Apaly

Apaly is an Advanced Primary Care marketplace built for large enterprises, connecting leading employers with best-in-class APC providers across the country. Through curated partnerships and cutting-edge health benefit infrastructure, Apaly helps large Fortune 500 companies to offer more personalized, proactive care to their teams. Learn more at apaly.com.

Vitable Health (www.vitablehealth.com) is the national Advanced Primary Care provider of Apaly.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Richard “Dick” Codey, a former acting governor of New Jersey and the longest serving legislator in the state's history, died Sunday. He was 79.

Codey’s wife, Mary Jo Codey, confirmed her husband’s death to The Associated Press.

“Gov. Richard J. Codey passed away peacefully this morning at home, surrounded by family, after a brief illness,” Codey's family wrote in a Facebook post on Codey's official page.

"Our family has lost a beloved husband, father and grandfather -- and New Jersey lost a remarkable public servant who touched the lives of all who knew him," the family said.

Known for his feisty, regular-guy persona, Codey was a staunch advocate of mental health awareness and care issues. The Democrat also championed legislation to ban smoking from indoor areas and sought more money for stem cell research.

Codey, the son of a northern New Jersey funeral home owner, entered the state Assembly in 1974 and served there until he was elected to the state Senate in 1982. He served as Senate president from 2002 to 2010.

Codey first served as acting governor for a brief time in 2002, after Christine Todd Whitman’s resignation to join President George W. Bush’s administration. He held the post again for 14 months after Gov. Jim McGreevey resigned in 2004.

At that time, New Jersey law mandated that the Senate president assume the governor’s role if a vacancy occurred, and that person would serve until the next election.

Codey routinely drew strong praise from residents in polls, and he gave serious consideration to seeking the Democratic nomination for governor in 2005. But he ultimately chose not to run when party leaders opted to back wealthy Wall Street executive Jon Corzine, who went on to win the office.

Codey would again become acting governor after Corzine was incapacitated in April 2007 due to serious injuries he suffered in a car accident. He held the post for nearly a month before Corzine resumed his duties.

After leaving the governor’s office, Codey returned to the Senate and also published a memoir that detailed his decades of public service, along with stories about his personal and family life.

“He lived his life with humility, compassion and a deep sense of responsibility to others,” his family wrote. “He made friends as easily with Presidents as he did with strangers in all-night diners.”

Codey and his wife often spoke candidly about her past struggles with postpartum depression, and that led to controversy in early 2005, when a talk radio host jokingly criticized Mary Jo and her mental health on the air.

Codey, who was at the radio station for something else, confronted the host and said he told him that he wished he could “take him outside.” But the host claimed Codey actually threatened to “take him out,” which Codey denied.

His wife told The Associated Press that Codey was willing to support her speaking out about postpartum depression, even if it cost him elected office.

“He was a really, really good guy,” Mary Jo Codey said. “He said, ‘If you want to do it, I don’t care if I get elected again.’”

Jack Brook contributed reporting from New Orleans.

FILE - New Jersey State Sen. and former Democratic Gov. Richard Codey is seen before New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy delivers his State of the State address to a joint session of the Legislature at the statehouse, in Trenton, N.J., Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)