BlueCross president: Columbus operation poised for job growth (Warm Springs: for sale, insurance)

[Airforceguy]

Columbus is certainly blessed to have this facility...

It was only last September that the insurance company cut the grand-opening ribbon on the sparkling new 235,000-square-foot office complex inside Muscogee Technology Park. It now employs about 1,450 at the site, with plans to have 1,750 on its payroll there by 2017. The company, which employs about 4,000 people statewide, relocated from its longtime space on Warm Springs Road, which now sits empty and is up for sale.

“By the rate we’re going with growth, I think we’ll outpace that,” Fusile, speaking of future hiring in Columbus, said in an interview Thursday at the Ledger-Enquirer’s downtown office. “We could get to 2,500 if necessary and we could expand space beyond that if we get there.”

The Columbus operation’s primary task is to process insurance claims and handle other customer service chores for its 3 million members across Georgia, but also in other states where Anthem’s insurance subsidiaries do business. The executive said the local workforce already processes more claims than any other Anthem facility in the U.S.

“It’s incredibly important,” he said of the work being done in Columbus.

Read more here: BlueCross president: Columbus operation poised for job growth | Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

BlueCross president: Columbus operation poised for job growth | Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

[Columbus1984]

Beautiful campus they built out in Midland. Would have been nice to have seen this campus built downtown with a 10-20 story building though. Big things heading this way it looks like.