{"id":118619,"date":"2025-08-29T14:56:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T14:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/118619\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T14:56:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T14:56:14","slug":"mayor-adams-commissioner-campion-announce-new-city-health-plan-moves-to-next-step-for-municipal-labor-committee-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/118619\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Adams, Commissioner Campion Announce New City Health Plan Moves To Next Step For Municipal Labor Committee Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK \u2013\u00a0New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Office of Labor Relations (OLR) Commissioner Renee Campion today announced the joint proposal from EmblemHealth and United Healthcare for a new health plan for active city employees, pre-Medicare retirees, and their dependents is being sent to the Municipal Labor Committee (MLC) for ratification. The city, in collaboration with the MLC, has negotiated directly with Emblem and United\u00a0since they were selected on June 2, 2025<\/a>. The proposed plan would continue to provide high-quality, premium-free coverage along with an expanded network of doctors and mental health specialists across the nation. If approved by the MLC, and finalized through the city\u2019s contracting process, the new plan would be effective on January 1, 2026.<\/p>\n

The proposed plan is the product of a years-long procurement process \u2014 the first in over four decades \u2014 conducted in collaboration with the MLC, and would support 75 percent of the city\u2019s workforce and their families, ensuring 750,000 employees, pre-Medicare retirees, and their dependents have the most high-quality, affordable, health care options available. Additionally, the proposed plan would cut the cost of the city\u2019s primary health plan by more than 10 percent \u2014 saving taxpayers up to $1 billion \u2014 while\u00a0simultaneously\u00a0expanding, instead of reducing, benefits and coverage.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur city employees dedicate their lives to making our city a better place and looking out for their fellow New Yorkers. They deserve the absolute best health care and benefits we have to offer, and, with this plan, we are giving them exactly that,\u201d said\u00a0Mayor Adams. \u201cWe are proud to enter the next phase in the process to deliver better quality health care to 750,000 employees, retirees, and their dependents. This will give enrollees more options in selecting their doctors, including for those living outside of New York City, while keeping health care affordable and saving the city as much as $1 billion. I want to thank Commissioner Campion and our union partners for coming together to tackle this dynamic issue, which only our administration was willing to take on.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am excited to announce that, following intensive negotiations with EmblemHealth and United Healthcare, this proposed plan is being sent to the MLC for approval. This plan will leverage the city’s purchasing power to provide more doctors, more mental health providers, and a broad national network to 750,000 employees, pre-Medicare retirees, and dependents while saving up to $1 billion per year,\u201d said\u00a0OLR Commissioner Campion. \u201cThank you to MLC Executive Board members Harry Nespoli, Henry Garrido, Michael Mulgrew, Gregory Floyd, and Gloria Middleton for working with us during this negotiation, and we look forward to the MLC\u2019s vote.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under Emblem and United\u2019s proposal, city employees, dependents, and pre-Medicare retirees in the New York City area will have access to more primary care doctors, more specialists, more nurse practitioners and physician assistants, and more mental health providers. Additionally, over 80,000 covered members living outside the New York area \u2014 for the first time \u2014 will have access to a broad national network, especially benefitting pre-Medicare retirees who have moved out of the region and are often forced to go out of network for coverage or pay a premium for a plan that provides coverage where they live. Overall, over 200,000 covered members have used doctors who are currently out of network and will be in network under the proposed plan.<\/p>\n

Emblem and United\u2019s proposed plan leverages the 750,000 covered lives under this plan and is projected to save the city nearly $1 billion per year, stabilizing health care costs that have sharply increased in recent years.<\/p>\n

The proposed plan would \u2014 also for the first-time ever \u2014 give New York City a self-funded insurance plan, the standard for all large employers, including the New York State Health Insurance Plan covering state employees, greatly reducing the costs of providing the plan with no effect on the quality of coverage.<\/p>\n

The award of the contract is subject to the successful finalization and approval of a contract through the city\u2019s procurement process.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s news builds on the city and MLC\u2019s collaboration over the past decade to continue to provide high-quality, premium-free health care coverage to city employees, retirees, and dependents, while simultaneously protecting taxpayer dollars by reigning in health care costs. These efforts have allowed city employees to continue to receive their health insurance at no premium cost to them, a benefit few other employers offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2013\u00a0New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Office of Labor Relations (OLR) Commissioner…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-118619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}