Tens of thousands of patients are scrambling now that Johns Hopkins Medicine and UnitedHealthcare negotiations ended without a new contract.
It means that Hopkins providers will continue to be out-of-network for patients under United.
Navigating these next steps is stressful, according to several patients WJZ spoke to on Tuesday. For them, it's not just a matter of picking a new doctor -- it's picking a new set of people they can trust.
No longer in-network
Lisa Robinson initially was being consulted at the University of Maryland Medical Center for her liver transplant, but United ultimately led her to get the procedure done at Hopkins.
"When it actually came down to the nitty gritty that I was actually going to be put on the list and possibly receive a liver, [University of Maryl