Feb. 15, 2022

Effective April 1, 2022, more than 200,000 Medicare-eligible City of New York retirees will transition to the NYC Medicare Advantage Plus plan.  This is an update to the originally communicated effective date of Jan. 1, 2022.

The NYC Medicare Advantage Plus plan is a Medicare Advantage PPO group retiree offering through an alliance between Empire BlueCross^® BlueShield^® (Empire) and EmblemHealth^®.  The plan allows retirees to visit any doctor nationally that accepts Medicare while ensuring the provider gets paid the negotiated contractual rate or 100 percent of the Medicare allowed rate if non-contracted (less any member copay).

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