Mayor Eric Adams officially signed an agreement Thursday sealing the deal on a new supplemental health insurance plan for retired municipal workers.
Aetna will serve as the new provider of the Medicare Advantage PPO plan for the city’s roughly 250,000 retirees and their dependents, according to the March 30 announcement from Adams and the city’s Office of Labor Relations commissioner, Renee Campion.
City retirees will be automatically enrolled in the new, premium-free Medicare Advantage plan starting Sept. 1 this year. Medicare is the federal government’s health insurance program for people who are 65 years old and above.