Olympic Medical Center achieves compliance with CMS

Published 2:30 pm Tuesday, October 14, 2025

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has notified Olympic Medical Center that it is back in compliance with its standards of care after a state Department of Health survey last month.

CMS said a termination date of Oct. 10, when its Medicare certification would end, was rescinded, according to OMC.

Medicare requires that facilities comply with its health, safety, billing and other requirements before being eligible for reimbursement.

CMS will issue the official back-in-compliance notice when the federal government shutdown has ended.

“This is a result of the hard work and dedication of our employees, managers and providers,” Mark Gregson, OMC’s interim CEO, said in a statement. “We are thankful to CMS for working with us throughout this process. Our plan is to keep this going and be ‘survey ready’ every day.”

The announcement Thursday evening, Oct. 9 followed a DOH visit, which occurred Sept. 22-25.

OMC’s troubles with its Medicare eligibility began in February, when the DOH conducted its first survey of the hospital since 2018. Health inspectors identified significant violations, requiring OMC to submit a plan of correction. But when inspectors returned in April for a resurvey, they determined many of the previous deficiencies hadn’t been corrected, and they identified new ones.

Their findings prompted CMS to issue the first of four termination notices, each warning that OMC’s participation in Medicare was at risk if it didn’t remedy the deficiencies.

Over the past eight months, OMC cycled through DOH resurveys and plans of correction — a pattern that wasn’t broken until September, when the hospital hired health care consulting firm Chartis for $248,000 to help it meet CMS compliance standards.

“We can’t say enough how grateful we are and how proud we are of all the people who worked so hard on this,” OMC board President Ann Henninger said.