The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating allegations that some of the nation’s largest health insurers are fleecing the government by overcharging Medicare.

The federal law enforcement agency “has been conducting, and continues to conduct, ongoing investigations” of Los Angeles-based Health Net Inc., Hartford, Connecticut-based Aetna Inc., and Bravo Health Inc. of Philadelphia, which is a unit of Bloomfield, Connecticut-based Cigna Corp. The agency also is investigating Humana Inc., headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, according to a document filed last week in a qui tam lawsuit against UnitedHealth Group Inc. of Minnetonka, Minnesota.

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