PORT ANGELES – A way out of a dead end for Olympic Medical Center and its primary care physicians remained undiscovered Thursday.
The doctors met for more than two hours that night without announcing a decision about an offer OMC commissioners had approved Wednesday night.
The doctors’ choice is to accept or reject a base salary of $164,600 per year – which includes their contributions to a retirement plan – for a full-time physician.
If the doctors reject the offer, they say they will remain as temporary physicians until the hospital can replace them.
The contract would continue the present arrangement in which four of the nine doctors at Olympic Medical Physicians Primary Care Clinic would work full shifts.
Four more would work three-quarters time and one would work half of a full-time equivalent.
Besides the base pay – which could be boosted by productivity incentives – each physician would receive $31,883 to cover costs the doctors say fall to them as contract employees: Social Security, health care insurance and the state Business & Occupation Tax.
