by Ben » Thu May 05, 2016 10:43 am
I'm going to have to agree with the doc. My company does a LOT of business with CHI Health, and as a system, they've gotten back at least 60%, if not greater, of their business that was lost during the BCBS dispute. Certain docs may still be down, but system wide, they're doing just fine.
The Academic Med Center campus at Bergan is still moving along strong. I don't know where the info about a work stoppage is coming from, but they've got hundreds of construction workers both there and downtown at the new ED/Clinic site going every day. And CHI's credit rating, while not what it once was (or for that matter, what any healthcare provider's once was) is still well into the investment grade.... While CHI is always tight with capital funding (as they prefer to buy up systems like Alegent, rather than spend on facilities), its still readily available if justification is there.
As a consumer of healthcare in the Omaha area, CHI Health is still considered a top provider for routine care. Once the academic move to Bergan is complete, I can see them pulling lots of business from Nebraska Med for some of the more esoteric specialties, as the Bergan campus is a much more accessible, nicer campus, than the sprawling, tough to park, UNMC campus, and certainly will be more favorable than the current Creighton location...
I'm going to have to agree with the doc. My company does a LOT of business with CHI Health, and as a system, they've gotten back at least 60%, if not greater, of their business that was lost during the BCBS dispute. Certain docs may still be down, but system wide, they're doing just fine.
The Academic Med Center campus at Bergan is still moving along strong. I don't know where the info about a work stoppage is coming from, but they've got hundreds of construction workers both there and downtown at the new ED/Clinic site going every day. And CHI's credit rating, while not what it once was (or for that matter, what any healthcare provider's once was) is still well into the investment grade.... While CHI is always tight with capital funding (as they prefer to buy up systems like Alegent, rather than spend on facilities), its still readily available if justification is there.
As a consumer of healthcare in the Omaha area, CHI Health is still considered a top provider for routine care. Once the academic move to Bergan is complete, I can see them pulling lots of business from Nebraska Med for some of the more esoteric specialties, as the Bergan campus is a much more accessible, nicer campus, than the sprawling, tough to park, UNMC campus, and certainly will be more favorable than the current Creighton location...