Anthem and Northern Light Health are blaming each other for a continuing contract impasse. If they fail to reach an agreement, Northern Light physicians will be out-of-network for Anthem patients starting in October, and hospital-based services will be out of network at the end of the year.

On Wednesday evening, Anthem issued a press release accusing Northern Light of walking away from negotiations twice and abandoning a mediation process. The president of Anthem in Maine, Denise McDonough, said that Northern Light recently issued a list of "demands."

"What they're saying is that they're willing to come back to the table," McDonough said. "But what they're not saying is that the only way they'd come back to the table is if we agreed to all of those demands, and we simply cannot."

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