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.

The U.S. is suing major health insurers over alleged kickbacks and discrimination in Medicare Advantage, potentially affecting millions.

The Department of Justice announced a lawsuit against three of the largest insurance companies -- Aetna, Elevance Health, and Humana -- accusing them of paying hundreds of millions of dollars in kickbacks to insurance brokers in return for enrollments in Medicare Advantage plans.