About three-quarters of the city’s municipal workforce, pre-Medicare retirees and their dependents will have expanded access to doctors and other clinicians, according to a tentative, cost-saving agreement city and union officials reached with two major insurance firms last week.
The plan, jointly run by EmblemHealth and UnitedHealthcare, would continue to provide premium-free coverage for 750,000 active and retired city employees, Mayor Eric Adams and city Labor Commissioner Renee Campion said.
The agreement would for the first time offer a broad national network of providers for the more than 80,000 members who live outside New York, city officials said. It would also bring an expected additional 200,000 members’ current out-of-network doctors into the system…