US files false claims complaint against three health insurers

GoHealth

01/05/2025 19:25

BOSTON, May 1 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit on Thursday accusing three of the nation's largest health insurers of paying hundreds of millions of dollars in kickbacks to brokers in exchange for enrollments into the insurers' Medicare Advantage plans.

The Justice Department in a lawsuit filed in federal court in Boston accused CVS Health's CVS.N Aetna, Elevance Health ELV.N and Humana HUM.N of violating the federal False Claims Act. The government also sued the insurance broker organizations eHealthEHTH.O, GoHealth and SelectQuote.

 (Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston)

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