More news on UnitedHealth’s hardball tactics going awry:

New York State has banned United Healthcare’s managed care plan, an arm of the nation’s second-largest health insurer, from signing up most types of new customers. State regulators say they took the rare action because the company has persistently defied state rules.

For at least three years, United Healthcare has repeatedly filed late, incomplete or inaccurate reports to the state about its finances and subcontracting, and has wrongly denied payment to doctors and other providers, along with a range of other violations, said officials at the State Health Department . . .

. . . Ms. Shure’s letter listed 13 steps United must take in the next 120 days to avoid more penalties. Many of United’s problems, she said, boil down to providers’ “having to go through a lot of hassles to get paid,” or simply not being paid.