Mayor Eric Adams announced on Friday that his administration will not move forward with a long-in-the-works switch of health care for the city’s quarter-million retirees to Medicare Advantage, after the state’s highest court issued a unanimous ruling clearing the way for the plan.

Mayor Adams announced Friday that his administration will not “at this time” shift the city government’s retired workforce into a cost-cutting Medicare Advantage plan — a move

New York City Mayor Eric Adams says the city will no longer move forward with a Bill de Blasio-era plan he previously supported. The plan would've impacted about 250,000 retired municipal workers. Retirees had said the plan would've limited their access to higher cost providers.