The Department of Justice is suing major health insurers, brokers in an alleged kickback scheme. The lawsuit claims that the companies exchanged illegal payments to steer seniors into specific Medicare Advantage plans.

Federal prosecutors are taking three of the nation's largest health insurance companies and three major insurance brokers to court in Massachusetts.

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.