PORT ANGELES – Olympic Medical Center will make a third try at landing an acceptable bid to remodel its Eighth Street primary care clinic.
Hospital commissioners met specially Monday to re-advertise for proposals on the project to upgrade the Olympic Medical Physicians Primary Care Clinic.
OMC already had tried twice to solicit bids at or below ceilings commissioners set to bring the former Virginia Mason building at 433 E. Eighth St. up to state “hospital standards.”
Those improvements, in turn, will allow the clinic to bill Medicare under Part A for a facilities fee and under Part B for a doctor’s services.
Taken together, the double billings will approximately equal the true cost of an average office visit, according to hospital officials.
The new ceiling for the work is $1.19 million, just over $73,000 more than Aldergrove Construction of Port Angeles bid on the work last week.
Aldergrove’s proposal, however, exceeded a $1,053,000 ceiling set last month. And that ceiling already had been raised from $780,000 OMC originally thought the work would cost,
