BOSTON, May 1 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice accused three of the nation's largest health insurers of paying hundreds of millions of dollars in kickbacks to brokers in exchange for steering patients into the insurers' Medicare Advantage plans.

In a complaint, opens new tab filed in Boston federal court on Thursday, the Justice Department alleged that CVS Health's (CVS.N), opens new tab Aetna, Elevance Health (ELV.N), opens new tab and Humana (HUM.N), opens new tab engaged in a vast kickback scheme with insurance brokers eHealth (EHTH.O), opens new tab, GoHealth (GOCO.O), opens new tab and SelectQuote (SLQT.N), opens new tab from 2016 to 2021.

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