BALTIMORE — After months of negotiations, Johns Hopkins Medicine and UnitedHealthcare have ended contract discussions without an agreement. The two negotiated for more than eight and extended the deadlines five times.

Doctors at Johns Hopkins say the disagreement was over policies that would make it harder to care for patients.

In a statement, Kim Hoppe, Vice President of Public Relations, Johns Hopkins Medicine said:

Despite our best efforts to find common ground over the course of more than eight months of negotiations, Johns Hopkins Medicine and UnitedHealthcare have concluded contract discussions without reaching an agreement. UnitedHealthcare refused to agree to reasonable contract language, instead insisting that we agree to terms that would make it difficult for us to provide pat

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