Retired New York City employees enrolled in Medicare have until October 30, 2026, to file a claim in a state-court settlement over co-payments charged under the city’s GHI Senior Care health plan. The case covers co-pays billed to Medicare-eligible retirees and their dependents between January 2022 and January 2023, and offers full or partial reimbursement to anyone who files by that date. A separate, earlier date governs anyone who wants to opt out instead.
A settlement notice with more than one date: This case pairs one date to file a claim with separate dates for opting out or objecting; The Settlement & Refund Recovery System’s four-date reading rule and claim log are built to sort a notice with that structure. Sort this notice’s separate dates in one log →
A copay dispute over one city health plan, not Medicare itself
The lawsuit does not challenge Medicare directly; it targets GHI Senior Care, the health plan New York City offers retired employees who are eligible for Medicare, and the plan’s administrator, EmblemHealth, Inc. The settlement’s case page identifies the dispute as Bianculli, et al. v. City of New York, et al., Index No. 160234/2022, in New York Supreme Court, New York County, before Hon. Lyle E. Frank, and confines it to co-payments charged to plan members during a defined 13-month window, not any benefit Medicare itself administers.
The class covers Medicare-eligible retired city employees and their dependents who were enrolled in GHI Senior Care between January 1, 2022, and January 31, 2023, per the settlement’s own class definition. Anyone inside that window who was charged a co-pay under the plan is a potential class member, regardless of how many co-pays they paid or what those charges totaled, since the settlement is defined around the charge itself rather than a fixed dollar amount…