BOSTON, May 1 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice

filed a lawsuit on Thursday accusing three of the nation's

largest health insurers of paying hundreds of millions of

dollars in kickbacks to brokers in exchange for enrollments into

the insurers' Medicare Advantage plans.

The Justice Department in a lawsuit filed in federal court

in Boston accused CVS Health's ( CVS ) Aetna, Elevance Health ( ELV )

and Humana of violating the federal False Claims

Act. The government also sued the insurance broker organizations

eHealth, GoHealth ( GOCO ) and SelectQuote ( SLQT ).

(Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston)