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 enrollees with disabilities who might come with heavy health costs. Prosecutors say in the complaint filed Thursday, that CVS Health’s Aetna, Elevance Health, and Humana paid hundreds of millions of dollars to get the brokers to steer customers into the insurers’ Medicare Advantage plans. Aetna and Humana also used payments to “pressure brokers to enroll fewer Medicare beneficiaries with disabilities, whom the insurers perceived as more expensive to cover,” and thus less profitable, according to the complaint.
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Source: https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/doj-files-complaint-against-aetna-ehealth-others-alleging-medicare-advantage-kickbacks-62487269