{"id":125,"date":"2025-05-09T09:57:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T13:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/?p=125"},"modified":"2025-05-09T09:57:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T13:57:36","slug":"justice-department-files-civil-complaint-alleging-health-insurers-and-brokers-violated-false-claims-act-via-kickbacks-and-discrimination-against-disabled-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/2025\/05\/09\/justice-department-files-civil-complaint-alleging-health-insurers-and-brokers-violated-false-claims-act-via-kickbacks-and-discrimination-against-disabled-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department Files Civil Complaint Alleging Health Insurers and Brokers Violated False Claims Act Via Kickbacks and Discrimination Against Disabled Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/media\/1398796\/dl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">217-page complaint<\/a>\u00a0filed on May 1, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) brought civil claims under the False Claims Act against major health insurers\u2014Aetna, Elevance Health (previously known as Anthem) and Humana\u2014alleging they paid hundreds of millions of dollars in kickbacks to some of the country\u2019s largest insurance brokers to steer Medicare beneficiaries into their Medicare Advantage plans. Medicare Advantage\u2014a $450 billion program through which private insurers deliver federal health benefits to seniors and people with disabilities\u2014is a critical revenue driver for the nation\u2019s largest health insurers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/justice_department_files_civil_complaint_alleging_health_insurers_brokers_violated_false_0525.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Read the full <em>Alert<\/em> on the Duane Morris website.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a\u00a0217-page complaint\u00a0filed on May 1, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) brought civil claims under the False Claims Act against major health insurers\u2014Aetna, Elevance Health (previously known as Anthem) and Humana\u2014alleging they paid hundreds of millions of dollars in kickbacks to some of the country\u2019s largest insurance brokers to steer Medicare beneficiaries into &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/2025\/05\/09\/justice-department-files-civil-complaint-alleging-health-insurers-and-brokers-violated-false-claims-act-via-kickbacks-and-discrimination-against-disabled-americans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Justice Department Files Civil Complaint Alleging Health Insurers and Brokers Violated False Claims Act Via Kickbacks and Discrimination Against Disabled Americans&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16,18,36,15],"ppma_author":[5],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-doj","tag-fca","tag-health-insurers","tag-healthcare"],"authors":[{"term_id":5,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2020\/10\/dmlogo.jpg","author_category":"1","last_name":"Davies","first_name":"Thomas","job_title":"","user_url":"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}