The Adams administration has deemed the city’s contentious Medicare Advantage contract with Aetna registered, despite the city Comptroller’s recent decision not to register the agreement and a pending lawsuit by a group of retired city workers challenging it.
In a brief statement issued Thursday morning, City Hall said that the city’s Office of Labor Relations has determined that the Comptroller’s office “did not have any statutory basis” for declining to register the contract. The city will continue with its plans to transition health-care coverage for 250,000 municipal retirees to the Aetna plan, which is set to take effect Sept. 1, the statement added.
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