Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota parent company to consolidate Fargo office space

FARGO — The father or mother firm of Blue Cross Blue Defend of North Dakota is promoting a constructing that homes its Medicare processing subsidiary and can transfer these workers into its headquarters a couple of blocks away.

The effectivity transfer is enabled as a result of many workers now work remotely. Of the corporate’s 2,700 workers, 2,000 work remotely or are part-time, and the headquarters constructing at 4510 thirteenth Ave. S. has area for 900 workers.

“So this consolidation permits us each room for development and to proper measurement our actual property footprint whereas we proceed to be devoted and accountable stewards of sources successfully supporting the wants of our companies, our groups, and the individuals we serve,” Andrea Dineen, a spokeswoman for Blue Cross Blue Defend of North Dakota mentioned in a press release.

The 156,000-square-foot constructing that homes Noridian Healthcare Options at 900 forty second St. S., is being listed on the market at $19.2 million, she mentioned. Noridian is a Medicare claims processor and likewise administers state well being plans and gives back-office help for industrial well being plans.

Between 200 and 300 workers within the Fargo Noridian workplace shall be relocating to the headquarters constructing owned by father or mother firm HealthyDakota Mutual Holdings.

Along with Blue Cross Blue Defend, the headquarters constructing additionally homes a number of different affiliated corporations, together with NextBlue of North Dakota, a Medicare Benefit firm, and Azurance Group, which gives supplemental insurance coverage for employers, and the Blue Cross Blue Defend of North Dakota Caring Basis.

“We shall be reworking in 2023, throughout which era strikes shall be phased as area turns into out there,” Dineen mentioned. “The timeline of the reworking relies on various variables, together with materials availability and reworking plans.”

The businesses anticipate to “obtain vital cost-savings” from the area consolidation, however a agency estimate wasn’t out there as a result of materials and reworking prices are topic to alter.