Employee Benefits Division
The Employee Benefits Division handles all employee benefit program administration, employee enrollment, billing and payment to insurance carriers. Our programs include medical and dental insurance, basic term life and LTD insurance, cafeteria plan option such as health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts, term life, LTD and accident insurance and other employee benefits.
NEW! NEW! NEW! - Employee Health Clinic Newsletter - NEW! NEW! NEW!
The On-site Employee Health Clinics help you save money on co-pays, deductibles and time! - The On-site Employee Health Clinics are now open and scheduling appointments. At both clinics, employees you are able to access primary health care from a licensed Nurse Practitioner or Physician's Assistant, supervised by a local physician, and who will assist you with managing chronic medical conditions such as diabetes and heart disease.
To schedule your appointment for the Santa Barbara clinic please call (805) 681 4700 or just dial ext. 4700 during the hours of 7:30am - 4:30pm, Monday through Friday.
To schedule your appointment for the Santa Maria clinic please call (805) 934 6900, or just dial ext. 6900 during the hours of 7:30am - 12:30pm, Monday through Thursday
Other than seeing you for episodic and chronic disease management now with our Blue Shield EPO, PPO and HDHP plans the clinics can:
refer you directly to a specialist,
write you a prescription,
draw blood and send it for diagnostic testing,
write a lab requisition.
All of this can be done without you having to pay a co-pay!
Important Information
To obtain up-to-date information about training sessions, wellness tips and benefits change, go to our Current Benefits News section. There are also several employee discounts available for health care services, eyewear and cell phone plans and equipment. In addition, there is information on our leave of absence policies and procedures for FMLA and Military Leave.
To make any changes to you Health and Other Benefit plans outside of Open Enrollment you need to experience a Qualifying Event which are described in detail in the following 2 documents:
All enrollment forms and summary data of the plans are provided on this web site. For hard copy packets such as health insurance plan info, please contact your departmental payroll staff. To assist you with any health insurance coverage issues, we have also provided access to the CareCounsel Healthcare Assistance services at 1-888-227-3334.
For questions about your flexible spending claims, please call ADP at 1-800-654-6695 or visit their website at www.flexdirect.adp.com.
If you have a benefits related question you are encouraged to read the FAQ section as some of the questions you have may be answered there. To contact us you may call (805)568-2814, (805) 568-2818 or (805) 568-2821.
Andreas Pyper, Crissy Kuehl and Marcie Segura
Your Employee Benefits Team