The U.S. Department of Justice sued top health insurance companies and brokers alleging they used illegal kickbacks to steer members into certain private Medicare Advantage plans.
The complaint names units of CVS Health Corp., Elevance Health Inc. and Humana Inc., along with broker companies eHealth, Inc., GoHealth, Inc., and SelectQuote Inc.
The government lawsuit, which was initiated by a whistleblower in 2021 and unsealed Thursday, alleges that brokers told their agents to sell Medicare Advantage based on the kickbacks and blocked the sale of insurance plans that didn’t pay. The complaint, which covers behavior from