A blockbuster lawsuit filed May 1 by the federal Department of Justice alleges that insurers Aetna, Elevance Health (formerly ...

Key Points Insurance companies and brokers are being accused of an illegal kickback scheme. The DOJ has filed a lawsuit ...

The complaint alleged that CVS Health-unit Aetna, Elevance Health and Humana paid the kickbacks to brokers in exchange for ...

The lawsuit accuses three insurance giants of paying out hundreds of millions in "illegal kickbacks" in a Medicare Advantage ...

claiming the insurers paid kickbacks to brokers to boost Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment. Insurers Aetna, Humana and Elevance Health are named, as are eHealth, GoHealth and SelectQuote.

CVS’ Aetna and two others were accused of paying hundreds of millions of dollars in kickbacks to brokers in exchange for steering patients into the insurers’ Medicare Advantage plans.

Under the Medicare Advantage (MA ... sell MA plans of insurers who did not pay sufficient kickbacks. The complaint further alleges that Aetna and Humana each conspired with the defendant brokers ...

Beneficiaries of the Medicare Advantage program can enroll ... them to insurers that paid the most in kickbacks. The department also alleges Aetna and Humana pressured brokers to enroll fewer ...

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The Justice Department filed a complaint alleging some of the biggest Medicare insurers paid kickbacks to brokers that sell such plans, seeking to grab market share and in some cases avoid ...

Medicare Advantage plans ... DOJ alleges that insurers Aetna, Elevance Health (formerly Anthem), and Humana paid 'hundreds of millions of dollars in kickbacks' to large insurance brokerages ...

The Department of Justice has sued three of the largest Medicare Advantage ... alleges Aetna, Anthem, and Humana paid “hundreds of millions of dollars” in kickbacks to the brokerage companies ...