Monterey Area Employee Assisted With Medical Issues

Friday, August 05, 2011

Senior Labor Representative Steve Allen had been attempting to help a Monterey area employee work with her city’s administration regarding an upcoming surgery that was needed. The City was unable to assist the employee who wanted her doctor to do the surgery locally at the Community Hospital Of Monterey Peninsula (CHOMP)and Anthem/Blue Cross was forcing the employee to travel over fifty miles to the San Jose area to have the surgery done. Traveling to this new hospital would necessitate the employee to obtain a new surgeon to do the surgery. The employee was in great pain and traveling over fifty miles each way would cause her even more pain. 

The Union had recently met with PERS Health-care and Anthem/Blue Cross representatives in another County. The Union was able to reach these representatives and we were able to learn that Anthem/Blue Cross and C.H.O.M.P. were currently in negotiations to do the surgery that the employee needed. The employee was able to confirm this information with her treating physician and she is very close to having the surgery done by her doctor in her town.

We all wish her a speedy recovery